The Book of Genesis

Speaker(s): Iain Provan
Date: Winter 2006
Length: 26:47:45
Product ID: RGDL3603S

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What kind of texts are we dealing with in Genesis, and what difference should this make to our interpretation of them? Are they myth, or history, or both/neither? Have Christians been right to see what they have seen in these books over the centuries? What are the boundaries of legitimate interpretation? What does Genesis have to say to contemporary Christians and their world? These and other similar questions will provide the focus for our exegetical study of portions of the text. Lectures include:

Introduction
Act I: The Prologue
Creation: Days 2-6
Creation: Day 6
Creation: The Blessing
Review of Genesis 1
Act II: The Descendents of Heaven and Earth
"The Garden in the East"
The Suitable Helper
The Temptation and Sin
Consequences of Sin
Reflections on Genesis 3
Cain and Abel
Act III: The Descendents of Adam
Act IV: The Descendents of Noah
The Flood
Act V: The Descendents of Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Act VI
Act VII
Act IX: The Descendents of Isaac
Act XII: The "Descendents" of Jacob

See All Audio by Iain Provan

Iain W. Provan is the E. Marshall Shepherd Professor of Biblical Studies (Old Testament) at Regent College. He has previously taught at King's College London, the University of Wales, and the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why it Matters, Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was, commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs, and Lamentations, and co-author (with V. Phillips Long and Tremper Longman III) of A Biblical History of Israel. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.