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Genesis 12...
May. 2nd, 2004 09:25 pm... Blender nil. >:-) Ahem. Here's our text. Here are my notes to myself for further investigation:
- Abram's plan backfires rather impressively - both God and Pharaoh are unimpressed by his spot of pimping. It may well have saved Abram's life, but suspiciously, it also makes him a wealthy man. Naughty Abram. Maybe God should've plagued him a little too.
- I wonder which Pharaoah this is? The plagues mentioned briefly here prefigure those of Exodus.
- How did the Bible come to have its chapter-and-verse structure? (Does the Torah have a similar numbering system?)
Couple of belated thoughts.
- Some of the Flood account is almost line-for-line identical with the Mesopotamian sources (imagine being the first person to translate the latter, and the shock of realising what you were reading!), esp. in Genesis 8. Must investigate the various explanations which scholars have suggested.
- There's a parallel between God's decision to limit human power in the Tower of Babel story, and in the Eden story. He's done something quite daring in creating something which could potentially rival Him (or thinks it can).
- Abram's plan backfires rather impressively - both God and Pharaoh are unimpressed by his spot of pimping. It may well have saved Abram's life, but suspiciously, it also makes him a wealthy man. Naughty Abram. Maybe God should've plagued him a little too.
- I wonder which Pharaoah this is? The plagues mentioned briefly here prefigure those of Exodus.
- How did the Bible come to have its chapter-and-verse structure? (Does the Torah have a similar numbering system?)
Couple of belated thoughts.
- Some of the Flood account is almost line-for-line identical with the Mesopotamian sources (imagine being the first person to translate the latter, and the shock of realising what you were reading!), esp. in Genesis 8. Must investigate the various explanations which scholars have suggested.
- There's a parallel between God's decision to limit human power in the Tower of Babel story, and in the Eden story. He's done something quite daring in creating something which could potentially rival Him (or thinks it can).
