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OT304 Human Discovery in Genesis 2–3
OT304 Human Discovery in Genesis 2–3
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Overview
Overview
In Human Discovery in Genesis 2–3 Dr. Dru Johnson unpacks the stories of Genesis 2 and 3 as interpretive keys for understanding all of Scripture. His analysis of these passages draws on literary aspects of the Hebrew text that he explains in simple, non-technical language to open the meaning of the biblical stories to modern readers. From Johnson’s literary analysis emerges a key paradigm for how to understand the Bible: Whose voice you listen to determines the kinds of actions you’re going to embody, which determine the kinds of things you can know and the kind of people you will become; therefore, it is imperative for the salvation and preservation of humanity to hear and heed the voice of God.
Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
Explain why using Adam as the name for the man in Genesis 2 can be ambiguous or misleading
Describe several ways Hebrew has to intensify an idea in a text
Describe how the man finding a helper suitable for him solves the problem of it not being good that the man is alone
Recognize that one of the attributes of Hebrew literature is clever wordplay
Identify the lesson the story of the talking serpent is to teach us
Explain how the phrase “rule over you” spoken to the woman does not necessarily imply federal headship of men over women
Explain whether the man’s sin was listening to the woman or disobeying God by eating the forbidden fruit
Describe the paradigm that Genesis 2–3 establishes that is thematically repeated throughout Scripture
Course Outline
Course Outline
Introduction
Introducing the Speaker and Course
Unit 1: Genesis 2: Humanity
Genesis 2:5–9: Adam the “Dirtling”
Genesis 2:10–20: It Is Not Good for the Man to Be Alone
Genesis 2:21–25: God Constructs Eve from Adam
Unit 2: Genesis 3: The Fall
Genesis 3:1a: Not Naked and Ashamed—Yet
Genesis 3:1b–5: The Serpent and Eve
Genesis 3:6–7: They Took and Ate
Genesis 3:8–13: Trying to Avoid Responsibility
Genesis 3:14–16: Cursing the Serpent and Addressing the Woman
Genesis 3:17–19: Cursing the Man
Genesis 3:20–24: Expelled from the Garden
Conclusions from the Course
What Have We Learned?
Details
Details
Title: Human Discovery in Genesis 2–3
Instructor: Dru Johnson
Publisher: Lexham Press
Publication Date: 2022
Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
Courses: 1
Video Hours: 1.5
About Dru Johnson
About Dru Johnson
Dru Johnson (Ph.D. University of Saint Andrews–Scotland) is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at The King’s College in New York City. He is currently a research fellow in the Logos Institute at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and formerly the co-chair for the Hebrew Bible and Philosophy program unit in the Society of Biblical Literature. He has taught in Western Kenya, Guatemala, and Brazil. He is currently ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and worships at Comunidade Cristã Presbiteriana in Newark, NJ.
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