Monday, September 21, 2009 OT notes

Monday, September 21, 2009

1. Beginning with looking at pg. 2
1. Affirming Alexander
2. Alexander’s questionable Thesis with comment
2. Substantial Mosaic Authorship of Pentateuch
1. The Egyptian details int eh Joseph and Egyptian plague stories strongly suggests someone familiar with Egyptian culture.
1. plagues, egyptian, knew all these traditions
2. Suggests a 2mill origin.
1. table...
2. read the “love letter for kevin”
1. look at genres
2. “dear kevin”
3. letter
3. Similarly there were patterns of literature in the ancient world
4. they have striking differences.
5. For example: Title, witness, curses and then stipulations for first century.
6. Ex, Deut, Josh... Title Prologue, stipulations, deposit witnesses blessings, curses.
1. the historical prologue isn’t found in first mill treaties.
3. The clear awareness of political treaty patterns of the 2nd millennium suggests a 2nd millennium origin from someone acquainted with international affairs.
4. In Genesis, a sense of homelessness and alienation combined with an optimistic anticipation of entering the promised land suggests the wilderness wanderings...
5. Moses, the key human figure in the Pentateuch, is a perfect candidate for having penned most of the pentateuch,
1. only moses was there for some of these accounts.
2. Acts 7:22
6. Moses had a key hand: many passages
7. Many liguistic features point to a 2nd mill origin of the pentateuch.
1. see different grammar in it, like the poetic spots. it shows earlier authorship.
2. even with updated, doesn’t mean it’s a totally different author.
3. if it was written later, it would have all been unified in grammar.
8. Seems that there were written documents that Moses had access to and that he knew about.
1. Within a hundred years things would have been written down in someone’s lifetime, adam lived 820 years or something.
2. would have held fast to the promises given to them.
3. authenticity of adam is key
9. Conclusion: traditional view is a sound view.
1. So long as one approaches the text theistically, one can justifiably view the pentateuch as containing a historically accurate account of past events upon which faith can be based.
2. As long as one allows for earlier sources, later glosses, and later (though minimal) editorial elaboration and stitching, it is very possible to affirm the substantial Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch.
3. I’ve learned to only say yes to ministry opportunities when i believe it is something that only i can do, uniquely suited to his gifts. J.I. Packer
1. and that i must make sure it helps the church.
4. Doxological Polemic of Genesis 2-3
1. Gen. 1:1-2:3 that isn’t something that someone witnessed, rather it is written with mankind as the audience.
2. What we are interpreting is Bible, Not ancient traditions.
1. not a history book
2. this is a selective history.
3. sermon in historical form.
4. why doesn’t Bible start with gen 2:4?
1. why is this text there?
2. to display his name/glory
3. He puts gen 1:1-2:3 for what?
1. if it is sermon material then it is polemical!
2. to alter mindsets of those who come after it, makes it polemical.
4. What was the first part of the Bible ever written?
1. Gen. 1:1 to start, when do you read something that talks about something that is actually written down?
2. The very first authoritative text being written down is at Sinai: covenant.
3. Then Moses is called to write more.
4. Covenant: two tablets: puts them in ark of the covenant
5. We reach Adam only through Moses, just like we only know Jesus through Matthew Mark Luke and John.
6. Covenant: have relationship with Word, personal, only through Word written.
1. Relationship is key
7. Who was this written to? What questions were they having?
8. Even though there were earlier accounts, source material, these books of genesis and exodus are the sermonized/canonized forms of these b/c the source material was from God and Moses’ words are from God as well.
1. Since it was then authoritative, it would not be changed like Moses changed and selected from the source materials.
9. When could this have been written?
1. From Sinai till his death.
2. So like 40 years.
3. Not allowed to go into the land, unbelief “numbers 14:11” Faith problem.
4. They are waiting and following, the amount of land they were “wandering” in was like a 30x30 square.
5. The entire generation are dying.
6. all are, 1.5 mill people die in this dessert, 60 people died per day on average.
7. Death all over the place, b/c of Sin.
8. To this audience they are being preached Genesis.
9. Growing out of the Egyptian Culture, some god was in everything.
1. in Gen 1, no god is seen anywhere in the rest of creation.
5. King Yahweh, His People, and His Property --- An Overview
1. Describe what gen 1:1-2:3 tell us about
1. God: Only Creator, In the beginning, creates through speech, personality, communication, pillar of fire: spirit of God seen in deut 13 only other place, the Spirit of God led them out of Egypt (Hosea), ezek. calls it the storm of God, the “glory cloud” taken up into it ezek., this is the same presence that was there in creation.
1. amazing power in creating through speech
2. God will continue creating, upholding, for an eternity.
3. “Us” unity in plurality. Is. 6 “who will go for Us” Elohim: used with singular verbs, expect that it is a plural. holy of holies is the superlative, this may be shorthand for “the God of gods”- plural majesties.
1. “us” heavenly counsel??? How does that fit into us being created in God’s image. Gen. 3: knowing good and evil? did the heavenly beings also have that knowledge?
2. 1 cor 11: gender distinction as the father head of the son... spouse imaged as how Christ relates to the Father.
3. “In the image of God” which is singular, so not the heavenly counsel.
4. Spirit is already present in the text.
1. seeds of a relational God are here
2. His World: started in the garden and we will end in the garden.
3. Us