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An 11 page exegesis of Genesis 22:1-19. The writer discusses the historical background to Genesis, placing the passage within its cultural context and then discusses the passage, drawing on appropriate biblical commentary. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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creation was the sociological need to create an identity for the Hebrew national that would enable them to withstand assimilation into the larger Persian culture. From this experience emerged the
Judaic concept of worship as a means of community building, of recreating "Gods design for the world" (Wiggins 713). As the opening book to the Torah and/or Old Testament, Genesis
performs a dual function as it not only tells its own narratives but it sets the stage for the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything
builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to understand how contemporaries would have viewed Abraham escorting his son Isaac up a mountain in order to sacrifice him to Jehovah, it
is first necessary to understand this action, the reader has to understand this action within the context of "the creation of the universe and the relationship between the creator and
humankind" (Friedman 295). The Book of Genesis, which is the first book of the Christian Bible and the Jewish Torah, is an ancient document that seems largely to be
a historical account of the Hebrew people. It begins with the story of creation and concludes with the story of Joseph and his rise to prominence as a high official
in the court of the Egyptian pharaoh. While the text asserts details of history, the larger concern to the authors of Genesis were the religious themes that it is meant
to convey. One of the principal themes is the introduction of evil into the world due to human actions and that, countering evil, is the promise of redemption, which becomes
possible through the intervention of men, such as Abraham and Noah, who submit themselves wholly to the will of God. The first half of Genesis offers a "primeval history,"
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