The Hebrew Bible

The Book of Genesis derives from the First Testament of the Hebrew Bible and explains the story of creation, or how the world came to be. While the author isn’t proven, it is widely believed by many that Moses authored the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah. In the story, the timeframe isn’t specified expect that it is said to be ‘in the beginning’ of all creation. The story goes on to detail how God created the heavens, the earth, and all its creatures. On the sixth day, he created man, Adam, in his image and placed him in the Garden of Eden. From Adam’s rib, he created a woman, Eve. The Garden of Eden was a lush and plentiful garden; however they were forbidden by God to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Dated back to the 10th century B.C., the story of Adam and Eve is told in Genesis chapters 2 and 3 of the Christian Bible. The creation is the main focus of chapter 2 and their fall and punishment is the main focus in chapter 3. God creates Adam in his image from mud, he blows to his face and gives him life. God presents all of the animals of the land to Adam and he is not satisfied, so God created Eve out of Adams rib as a companion and helper for him, and he is satisfied with Gods work. God commands Adam and Eve to not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But, the serpent persuades Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and she persuades Adam to do so as well. After they eat the forbidden fruit they realize they are naked

The Bible was originally written in Hebrew by a series of many authors around the time of 1450-1410 BC (Holy Bible, Scofield). Moses who wrote Genesis, supposedly received direct information from God himself about how the world and man were created. This is the first point of interpretation because there is a need to have blind faith in Moses. There are many stories in Genesis that seem absurd and hard to believe really happened, unless you are someone who believes in the power of God and has this blind faith. For example, God gives Adam and Eve a garden and says not to take the fruit from one tree and when they eat the fruit from that tree, God punishes them, “Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life” (1:17, Gen). From a figurative standpoint we can

To study Genesis in terms of its literary and historical content is not to say that we are in any way being irreverent in our reading of this part of the Old Testament. In other words, it is possible to read Genesis in both a spirit of appreciation for its position as the opening exegetical narrative of the Bible and as a document that reflects literary and historical realities and influences during the time when it was being written down. This paper examines some of the contemporary sources that influenced the two sets of writers who recorded the events of Genesis.

The Old Testament is the largest part of the bible nestled behind the leather binding in the front of the book. Unlike most books, told from one-person or even two this is comprised of multiple, some stories even having two different versions in another point of view; over time it has become a large collection of ancient texts written and re-written by different authors and editors over the many years. The stories show the ancient Israelites, they show the laws, and rituals, which make up their religion and the small embers, which will one day, turn to a flame that is Christianity. The Jewish people view these stories as collected in what they call the Torah, is the collection for what makes up their history and the promise that God gave to them, as well as their laws and what they worship today. For the Christians the Old Testament is still seen as sacred, but most place a stronger importance to the New Testament.

13) The Creation of the World; the Garden of Eden; Adam and Eve; Original Sin; the Fall

There was a big difference in the main question of the story: "How was the Earth created?". In the Genesis creation story, there was nothing in sight for man to lay eye on; until God said "Let there be light" and so there was light. God created everything from the division of light and dark, day and night, good and evil, to the existence of grass, trees, living creatures, seasons, years, and days. God then created man in his own image, Adam, who was given the responsibility of naming whatever faced the Earth. God then created what Adam later

Christians and Jews alike hold that death was not originally part of God's plan for Creation. God gave Adam and Eve a clear commandment with death as the consequence for disobedience. The LORD God gave man this order: “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” (Genesis 2:16-17) After they disobeyed God, he pronounced His judgment upon them in Genesis 3:19. “By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return.” In Genesis 5:2, Adam's life is summed up with, “The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.”

The bible remains a mystery to many people in society today. Therefore, the relationship between God and Adam can be said to be a very complex relationship. Genesis shows us many examples of God 's interaction with Adam, apparently there is so much more about God’s disappointment and righteous anger in the garden. The world of Christianity fails to see there’s so much more to the story about God and Adam, I think many of us do the same. He was the first man, the father of mankind, however, Genesis does not fill-in the missing background information as to the reasons why man and woman came to be the first rational, mortal creations of God 's divinity. Moreover, most believers in the Bible do not know the specific similarities and differences regarding the two humans ' characteristics, and how their relationship impact each other as well as all other living creatures in the garden. We see the wrath, but we miss the grace. The bible does not tell if Adam was Baptized and upon his death he went to heaven, however many of religious leaders tried to read and to the relationship between god and Adam, without facts to back it up. Non statement should not be used to formulate doctrine. A conclusion cannot be drawn from something that God did not say. If Adam had been faithful, God may have had any number of plans for Adam, none of which are touched upon in Genesis. If all other aspects of earthly creation tend to decay and death it makes as much sense to conclude that human 's

He does this because it is very evident in the subsequent chapter that when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, they did not immediately fall down and die. Instead we read in Genesis 5 how they continued to live what seems to have been long lives. We are not told this in the case of Eve, but we read of Adam living to an advanced old age of 930 years.

For many, the Hebrew bible is read and accepted without question. It plays a significant role in the practice of many religions and yet not many dare to wonder who wrote such sacred writings that would still be read to this very day. For generations, it was almost unheard of to ask or even fathom the identity of the author. Richard Elliot Friedman, a biblical scholar and graduate from Harvard University, explores, studies, and analyzes the bible to discover who wrote it. Having earned a master degree in theology, B.A degree in Philosophy, and master degree in Hebrew literature, Friedman proves to be a knowledgeable expert in his field of studies. From the years of work he invested into, Friedman aims to provide convincing evidence that the book is written by four persons through historical, archaeological, logical proof.

The book of Genesis covers many topics. Creation is the theme of chapter one. In chapter two, God says that His creation is good. He then creates man from the dust and women from the man. Next is the Fall of Man, Eve is tempted by the serpent to eat of the tree God told them not to eat. Both, Eve and Adam end up eating of the fruit from the tree resulting in the punishments from God for all of mankind. Chapter four is about Cain and Abel. It also covers the first murder and first record of bigamy. It gives some lineage of Cain and also tells of Eve’s birth of Seth who replaced Abel. Chapter five is about the generations of Adam. Adam lived to be 930 years old. Chapters six through eight is about Noah building the Ark and the Flood. Chapter nine, God promises to never destroy the Earth with a flood again. The lineage of Noah is recorded in chapter ten. The confusion of languages of the people at the Tower of Babel and

“Because of his sin, death came upon all men, ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). His sins caused death and pain to all of humanity. In his article writer Noel Scoburgh wrote that Adam may have been tempted to disobey God because he lacked humility and his pride as a human got in the way 4. Like many other people, Scoburgh believes that Adam ate from the tree because he wanted to be all knowing and knowledgeable like God 4. He wanted to be God.

John H. Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible is broken up into fourteen chapters. Those fourteen chapters are each part of one of five sections. This book also contains over twenty historical images. Before the introduction, the author gives readers a full appendix of all images used in this published work. The author then gives his acknowledgements followed by a list of abbreviations.

To speak of the Hebrew Scripture is to speak of story, a story stretching from the very beginning of time to only a few centuries before the beginning of the Common Era. It is to speak of richness of content, of purpose and of reality and to engross oneself in an overarching narrative that, depending on your personal convictions, continues to the present day. Within this richness is found a wide variety of different events and experience, told through a series of genre ranging from foundational myth to apocalypse, law giving to poetry, genealogy to wisdom and many more. Within this diversity however, three broad sections can be discerned that speak to a shared purpose and content, these are the sections of Law, Prophecy and Writings. It