Genesis Unfolded

Chapters 1-50 The Twelve Text Sections I In the Beginning 1:1 1 II Generations of the Heavens and the Earth 2:4 5 III Scroll of Genealogies of Adam 5:1 17 IV Genealogies of Noah 6:9 22 V Genealogies of the Sons of Noah 10:1 35 VI Genealogies of Shem 11:10 42 VII Genealogies of Terah 11:27 44 VIII Genealogies of Ishmael 25:12 83 IX Genealogies of Isaac 25:19 84 X Esau 1. Genealogies of Esau 36:1 117 2. Genealogies of Esau, Father of Edom 36:9 118 3. Sons of Seir 36:20 119 XI Genealogies of Jacob 37:2 123 XII Names of Jacob's Sons 46:8 149 Appendix I What Genesis One Does Not Say..........................169 Before we approach the text with all our answers, it is useful to consider the questions. Appendix II The Changes to Adam.........................................179 An ordinary look at Adam and Eve's bodies demystifies religious dogma; did we fall from a state of goodness, or rise to a state that we couldn't handle? Appendix III The Two Trees: Morality vs. Mortality..............188 A look at what being mortal means, and what God is and has always been doing about it. Appendix IV Jehovah vs. Elohim............................................195 Ancient warring factions or common sense that a child could understand? Appendix V The Woman and the Seed....................................201 A look at the ramifications of being a woman ...to Jesus. Appendix VI The Stories in the Genealogical Histories.........209 It's far more than a list of names. Appendix VII Time.................................................................217 Time is not longer than we think, it's broader. Appendix VIII The Days of the Deluge, Peleg, and Eber......223 The shape of society: how the initial power centers that are still around were set up. Appendix IX Sarai, Mother of Faith.......................................233 How Sarah picks up where Eve left off. Appendix X Mother of All Living............................................241 Eve, Rebecca, and the dialogue between sister, mother, and wife. Appendix XI Seventy Souls to Egypt.......................................249 Who went down with Jacob to Egypt, and why the record is set that way. Appendix XII Year/years: Hidden Cycles in the Text............252 How the grammar and the numerics work together. Appendix XIII Themes Within Themes: the Ephesian Pattern..........................................................................260 How the overarching saga of Genesis is summarized in Ephesians as a model of reality. Appendix XIV Where Was the Field?....................................264 An investigation into this strange word that begins the second account of creation suggests an entire world that we are missing.