Sunday, July 11, 2010

Chapter 2 -- Overview

Father in Faith -- pages 38 - 50 read through the whole thing

read pages 38- mid-40

Ur -- day of splendor
moon-god cult
ziggurats -- were temples
2029 -2006 BC -- King Ibbi-Sin
wall
Elamites sack -- cuneiform lament
(study it)
1830 BC -- Warad-Sin
city of Ur --> town --> village
nomads came to Haran
Terah -- father of Abram -- Abram's wife Sarai
Ebla -- listed same cities as Bible does -- Sodom, Gomorrah, etc
Here the Bible walks on to the historical stage

page 40 - 43

Differences between the One God and the typical gods
Abram's call -- goes to Egypt
Abram -- Bethel

pages 43-mid 45

Melchizedek
bread and wine -- type of Mass
covenant with God
Sodom and Gomorrah, Dead Sea
"nature miracles"
Isaac -- sacrifice

mid-45 to mid 48

Isaac
Jacob and Esau
resting with God
purging of idols
read Genesis

mid -48

story of Akhnaten -- read about him somewhere else

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