Genesis to Revelation: Genesis Leader Guide: A Comprehensive Verse-by-verse Exploration of the Bible - Softcover

Harrelson, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501848372 ISBN 13: 9781501848377

Verlag: Abingdon Press, 2017

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Study the entire Book of Genesis,beginning with the creation story and ending with Jacob and his family reuniting. Some of the major ideas explored in this Book of the Bible are: personal relationship with God, the mystery of God, God's unconditional love, courage to face the unknown, and turning evil into good.Leader Guide includes: A verse-by-verse, in-depth look at the Scriptures. Background material, including word studies and history of the biblical setting. Answers to questions asked in the Participant Book. Application of the Scripture to daily life situations. Discussion suggestions. A variety of study options. Practical tips for leaders to use.More than 3.5 million copies of the series have been sold.This revision of the Abingdon classic Genesis to Revelation Series is a comprehensive, verse-by-verse, book-by-book study of the Bible based on the NIV. These studies help readers strengthen their understanding and appreciation of the Bible by enabling them to engage the Scripture on three levels: What does the Bible say? Suggests questions for participants to consider as they read the passage for each session. What does the passage mean? Unpacks key verses in the selected passage. How does the Scripture relate to my life? Provides three major ideas that have meaning for our lives today. The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words.The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words. The simple format makes the study easy to use. Includes maps and glossary with key pronunciation helps.Updates will include: New cover designs and interior designs. Leader Guide per matching Participant Book (rather than multiple volumes in one book). Updated to 2011 revision of the New International Version translation (NIV)and references to New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible. Biblical chapters on the contents page beside session lesson titles for at-a-glance overview of biblical structure. Larger divisions within the contents page to reflect macro-structure of each biblical book. For example, Genesis 1-11; Genesis 12-50; Exodus 1-15; Exodus 16-40; Isaiah 1-39; Isaiah 40-66.The simple format makes the study easy to use. Each volume contains 13 sessions and has a separate Leader Guide.

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Dr. Walter Harrelson served as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee, and adjunct professor in the Divinity School of Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He wrote several books and many articles on the Old Testament, as well as on religion and worship in Bible lands.

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Genesis to Revelation: Genesis Leader Guide

A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible

By Walter Harrelson

Abingdon Press

Copyright © 2017 Abingdon Press
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5018-4837-7

Contents

1. Creation (Genesis 1–3), 
2. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4–5), 
3. The Flood (Genesis 6–8), 
4. Noah and His Descendants (Genesis 9–11), 
5. Abraham Settles in Canaan (Genesis 12–15), 
6. Abraham Speaks With God (Genesis 16–19), 
7. Abraham and His Descendants (Genesis 20–24), 
8. Esau and Jacob (Genesis 25–27), 
9. Jacob and Laban (Genesis 28–31), 
10. Jacob in Canaan (Genesis 32–36), 
11. Joseph's Journey to Egypt (Genesis 37–41)., 
12. Joseph and His Brothers (Genesis 42–45), 
13. Jacob and His Family Reunited (Genesis 46–50), 

CHAPTER 1

CREATION

Genesis 1–3

DIMENSION ONE: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?

Answer these questions by reading Genesis 1

1. Who creates the heavens and the earth? (Genesis 1:1) God creates the heavens and the earth.

2. What is the earth like when God begins creating? (Genesis 1:2)

The earth is formless and empty; darkness is over the surface of the deep.

3. What does God create on each of the first six days? (Genesis 1:3-27)

Day What God creates on this day

One light
Two expanse
Three dry land, vegetation

Day What God creates on this day

Four sun, moon, and stars
Five living creatures of water and air
Six animals and human beings

4. What does God command the first creatures to do? (Genesis 1:22)

God commands that they be fruitful and increase in number.

5. What position do the human beings occupy in creation? (Genesis 1:28)

They rule over all living creatures.

6. After God creates the human beings on the sixth day, what does God think of creation? (Genesis 1:31)

God sees everything that he has made, and it is very good.

Answer these questions by reading Genesis 2

7. What does God do to the seventh day? Why? (Genesis 2:3)

God blesses it and makes it holy, because on this day he rests from all his work of creation.

8. From what does God make the first man? How does God give the man life? (Genesis 2:7)

God makes man from the dust of the ground and breathes into man's nostrils the breath of life.

9. Where does God put the man? (Genesis 2:8)

God puts the man in the garden God plants for him.

10. What command does God give the man when he places him in the garden? What will happen if the man disobeys the command? (Genesis 2:16-17)

The man must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If the man does, he will die.

11. When God decides that it is not good for the man to be alone, what does God do first? (Genesis 2:18-19)

God forms animals and birds from the ground and brings them to the man to see what he will call them.

12. From what does God make the first woman? (Genesis 2:21-22)

God makes the woman from a rib taken from the man's body.

13. According to God's instructions, what takes place when a man and woman unite? (Genesis 2:24)

The man leaves his parents and is united with his wife. They become one flesh.

Answer these questions by reading Genesis 3

14. What does the serpent tempt the woman to do? (Genesis 3:1-5)

The serpent tempts the woman to eat some of the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden.

15. What knowledge comes to the man and the woman when they eat the fruit? (Genesis 3:7)

They know they are naked.

16. When they hear the sound of God in the garden, what do they do? (Genesis 3:8)

They hide among the trees.

17. Whom does God question first? (Genesis 3:9)

God first questions the man.

18. What does God do to the serpent who tempted the woman? (Genesis 3:14)

God curses the serpent and makes it crawl on its belly.

19. What is the woman's punishment? (Genesis 3:16)

She will experience much pain in childbearing.

20. What is the man's punishment? (Genesis 3:17-19)

He will toil hard to make a living from the earth.

21. What does God make for the man and the woman before sending them out of the garden? (Genesis 3:21)

He makes them garments of skins.

DIMENSION TWO: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE MEAN?

Background Information on Genesis 1–3

As the participant book suggests, many scholars think that Genesis 1–3 originated from distinct strands of tradition. These strands of tradition were then brought together by different individuals or groups in ancient Israel. Notice that the author of Luke's Gospel speaks of a similar process in Luke 1:1-4. He gathered together all of the available traditions about Jesus, weighed them, and put them together in a faithful way.

So also, ancient Israel had various ways of understanding the Creation. It seems likely that the people came to prefer two of these ways. The first tells the story in a straightforward, orderly way. It is based on the Hebrew view of the structure of the universe. It helped people understand that God was in charge of the whole process and carried it through in six days. Every act of God was good and complete. This story would have been of special value to the teachers of ancient Israel, the priests and theologians. Genesis 1 begins this story, which continues through Genesis 2:3.

The other tradition is a beautiful and sensitive literary account of the first man and woman. It tells of God's loving care for the first human beings, of their temptation and sin, and of God's leading them out into the kind of world that we know, outside the garden of Eden.

The stories fit together very well and complement each other. Indeed, they fit together so well that we cannot be certain that two accounts really exist. Perhaps we have a single account that presents the Creation in two ways. But most scholars today believe that at least two traditions lie behind the Genesis 1–3 account.

Genesis 1:16. The participant book points out that the creation of light on the first day (Genesis 1:3) — before the sun, moon, and stars — was not a slip by the writer. The Israelites knew that the sun gave the basic light for earth. But they wanted their hearers and readers to know that God was not dependent upon the sun for light. Rather, the sun depended on God for its existence and power. Every creature in all the world was created by God and was good. While the sun was considered to be one of the high gods for the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, and Egyptians, it held no power over Israel's God.

Genesis 1:26-28. This story of the Creation identifies the human race as consisting of male and female. When the writer says "man" he means "humankind," not the first male human being or only male human beings.

God prepares to create the first human beings, made in his own image. Yet before he does so, he reflects on the action as the heavenly host listen in. Most interpreters say that this poetic vision of God in heaven shows just how decisive a matter this act of creation is.

To be made in God's image and likeness...

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• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501848372
• ISBN 13: 9781501848377
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
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