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Wisdom and Creation Proverbs 30-31 & Sirach 7.18-36 Gen. 1.1-2.3 Gen. 2.4-3.24 Gen. 6.5-9.17 & 11.1-9 Ps.8, 74, 89.6-19, 136.1-9 Is. 40.12-14 & 21-22 Job 9.4-13, 25.1-26.14. The Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures). Wisdom and Creation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Proverbs 30-31 & Sirach 7.18-36 Gen. 1.1-2.3 Gen. 2.4-3.24
Gen. 6.5-9.17 & 11.1-9 Ps.8, 74, 89.6-19, 136.1-9
Is. 40.12-14 & 21-22 Job 9.4-13, 25.1-26.14
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Proverbs 30 – social order as divinely ordainedProverbs 31 – the virtues of a king, the ideal wife
Sirach 7.18-36 – advice to a wealthy man
The theme: creation is divine order, therefore social order is a reflection of the order of
creation,disruption of the social order leads to chaos
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation The first Creation Narrative: Gen. 1.1-2.3
The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth(video segment/reading from Enuma Elish)
Text from the Priestly redactor
Terms:ruachtan/tanyimEnuma Elish
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)Wisdom and Creation
The Hymn of Creation
Separation Population light/dark sun/moon & stars Waters above/below birds/fish land/sea mammals, humanity
'and God saw that it was good', 'on the 7th day He rested'
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Man and Woman
Made in the Divine ImageStewards of Creation
Priestly connection to sanctity of Matrimony
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
The Second Creation Narrative: Gen. 2.4-3.24
Adam, Eve, and the Garden(video segment)
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)Wisdom and Creation
Gen. 2.4-3.24
The importance of language
‘man’ (‘adam) and ‘soil’ (‘adamah)
name of the garden is reminiscent of both the Akkadian word for ‘steppe’ and the Hebrew word for pleasure
man (ish) and woman (ishah)
naked(‘erummim) and cunning (‘arum)
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)Wisdom and Creation
Gen. 2.4-3.24
The importance of language
man (ish) and woman (ishah)
The words ish (man) and ishah (woman) share the letters alef shin, which spell out eish: fire. The man has a yod within the word ish, and woman has a hey in the word
ishah. The yod and hey together spell out the name Yah, referring to the divine Presence.
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Gen. 6.5-9.17 Noah and the Flood
Gen. 11.1-9 the Tower of Babel
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)Wisdom and Creation
Psalms
8 – God is Creator, humanity 'little less than gods' and stewards of
Creation
74 – even though the Temple is destroyed, God is Lord of Creation
89.6-19 - “Yours are the heavens, yours the earth; you founded the world and everything in it.”
136.1-9 God is Creator, “God's Love endures forever”
The Old Testament(Hebrew Scriptures)Wisdom and Creation
Is. 40.12-14,21-22 – God is the Creator, and the savior of His people
Job 9.4-13 – God made the mountains and the stars 25.1-26.14 - God made all things and gave order to
Creation