The Book of Genesis 1-11

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S1E1: Genesis introduction

The traditional “Documentary Hypothesis” of how the first books of the Bible came to be (PDF)

Enuma Elish and Genesis creation stories compared (PDF)

Outline of the content of Genesis (PDF)

Genesis 1.1-2 in Hebrew and Greek (PDF)

Genesis 1 structure (PDF)

S1E2: The First Day (Gen 1.1-2)

Genesis among exilic texts (PDF)

David Abrams, The Spell of the Sensuous (publisher link)

Translations of Genesis 1.1-2 (PDF)

S1E3: The First Day (Gen 1.3-5)

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S1E4 The Second Day (Gen 1.6-8)

Flat earth map (JPG)

S1E5 The Third Day (Gen 1.8-13)

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S1E6 The Fourth Day (Gen 1.14-19)

On the Babylonian moon god (link)

S1E7: The Fifth Day (Gen 1.20-23)

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S1E8: The Sixth Day (Gen 1.24-31)

Richard Manning, Against the Grain (publisher link)

Enuma Elish (annotated text link)

Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1

(publisher’s link)

S1E9: The Seventh Day (Gen 2.1-4a)

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S1E10: Garden of Eden overview (Gen 2.4a-3.24)

What the Garden story is and is not about (PDF)

Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (archive.org link)

Carol Meyers, Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (publisher link)

Norman C. Habel and Shirley Wurst, eds. The Earth Story in Genesis (Book Depository link)

Ron Moe-Lobeda, The Mystery of Eve and Adam: A Prophetic Critique of the Monarchy (publisher link)

Wordplay in Genesis (PDF)

In the Garden and Out Again (PDF)

“Sevens” in Genesis (PDF)

S1E11: The Garden of Eden comes to be
(Gen 2.4b-9)

Austen Hartke, transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians (author’s website link)

S1E12: rivers and trees (Gen 2.10-17)

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S1E13: "At last!" (Gen 2.18-25)

“Building” in Genesis (PDF)

S1E14: The snake (Gen 3.1-5)

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S1E15: Eating the fruit (Gen 3.6-8)

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S1E16: Shame to blame (Gen 3.9-13)

“Firsts” in Genesis 3.8-13 (PDF)

S1E17: The curse (Gen 3.14-21)

Aspects of Genesis 3.14-21 (PDF)

Before and after Eden in Genesis (PDF)

R. Crumb, Genesis Illustrated (archive.org link)

Translations of Genesis 3.16 (PDF)

S1E18: A satire of monarchy and empire (Gen 3.14-21, part two)

Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (publisher link)

John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal (archive.org link)

Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (archive.org link)

James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (publisher link)

S1E19: Driven from the Garden (Gen 3.22-24)

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S1E20: The farmer and the shepherd (Gen 4.1-5)

Aspects of Genesis 3-4 (PDF)

S1E21: Cain and Abel (Gen 4.6-8)

Genesis 2-3 and Genesis 4 chiasms (PDF)

Translations of Genesis 4.7a (PDF)

S1E22: The curse of Cain (Gen 4.9-14)

Genesis 3 and 4 curse parallels (PDF)

Translations of Genesis 4.12 (PDF)

S1E23: "and he built a city" (Gen 4.15-17)

Jacques Ellul, The Meaning of the City (bookdepository.org link)

Lewis Mumford, The City in History (Google Books link)

David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (publisher link)

Approaches to Genesis 4.17 (PDF)

S1E24: The line of Cain (Gen 4.18-24)

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S1E25: The line of Seth, part 1 (Gen 4.25-5.5)

“J” and “P” in Genesis 1.1-6.8 (PDF)

S1E26: The Book of the Toledot of Adam, part 2 (Gen 5.6-27)

David Carr, The Formation of Genesis 1-11 (publisher link)

Genesis 5 genealogy and the Sumerian King List (PDF)

Umberto Cassuto, From Adam to Noah: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis I-VI (amazon link)

Sumerian King List (PDF)

Babylonian base 60 number system in the Genesis 5 genealogy (PDF)

S1E27: "This one shall bring us comfort"
(Gen 5.28-32)

“The ‘Terror’ of Noah: How Darren Aronofsky Interprets the Bible” (The Atlantic link)

S1E28: The "sons of God" meet the "daughters of humans," part 1 (Gen 6.1-4)

Questions raised by Genesis 6.1-4 (PDF)

1 Enoch 6-7 (PDF)

S1E29: The "sons of God' meet the "daughters of humans," part 2 (Gen 6.1-4)

Enoch, Noah, YHWH and the bene haelohim (PDF)

S1E30: YHWH's "regret" (Gen 6.5-8)

Prologue to the Flood narrative (PDF)

S1E31: The Flood Narrative: an introduction (Gen 6-9)

The “J” and “P” Flood stories (PDF)

The Genesis and Gilgamesh Flood stories (and Genesis Flood chiastic structure, PDF)

Hebrew words in Genesis found only in the Flood story (PDF)

Possible narrative causes for the Flood (PDF)

Echoes of Genesis 1-2 in the Flood story (PDF)

S1E32: "and the earth was filled with violence (Gen 6.9-13)

Sons of Noah references (PDF)

Flood story structure options (PDF)

S1E33: "Make yourself an ark" (Gen 6.14-22)

Noah’s Ark in popular culture (PDF)

Some translations of Genesis 6.16 (PDF)

S1E34: Entering the ark (Gen 7.1-10)

Parallels between Flood and Sodom stories (PDF)

S1E35: "All the fountains of the great deep burst forth" (Gen 7.11-16)

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S1E36: "And all flesh died that moved on the earth" (Gen 7.17-24)

Genesis 7.17-24 poetic shape (PDF)

S1E37: And God remembered (Gen 8.1-5)

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S1E38: The earth dries (Gen 8.6-14)

Genesis 8.6-14 shape (PDF)

S1E39: "Come out of the ark!" (Gen 8.15-19)

Genesis 8.15-19 shape (PDF)

S1E40: Noah brings death back to the earth (Gen 8.20-22)

Gilgamesh Tablet XI excerpt on sacrifice (PDF)

S1E41: Fear and dread of you (Gen 9.1-7)

Genesis 9.1-7 shape (PDF)

Changes from the situation in Genesis 1-4 to that in Genesis 9 (PDF)

S1E42: Sign and covenant (Gen 9.8-17)

Genesis 9.8-17 shape (PDF)

Military imagery in the closing of the Flood narrative (PDF)

S1E43: The Flood Narrative: conclusions and "afterlife" (Gen 6-9)

Noah in the Bible outside of Genesis (PDF)

Noah and the Flood in intertestamental literature (PDF)

Wali Fejo bio (PDF)

Wali Fejo quotes (PDF)

Disler, “The Biblical Tale of Noah’s Ark Revised to Account for Climate Change” (web link)

Shay, “Noah Warns Us on Climate Change” (web link)

Norman Habel’s website, editor of “The Earth Bible Commentary” series (web link)

S1E44: Noah and his sons (Gen 9.18-27)

Issues in the story of Genesis 9.20-27 (PDF)

Adam, Cain and Noah chart (PDF, from Devora Steinmetz)

S1E45: The "Table of Nations" (Gen 10.1-32)

An outline of “The Table of Nations” (PDF)

Genealogies in Genesis (PDF)

S1E46: The counter-creation of Nimrod
(Genesis 10.8-12)

Some translations of Genesis 10.9 (PDF)

S1E47: The "Tower of Babel," Part 1 (Genesis 11.1-4)

Aspects of the Babel story: structure, key words, wordplay (PDF)

Issues and themes in the Babel story (PDF)

S1E48: The "Tower of Babel," Part 2 (Genesis 11.5-9)

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S1E49: The toledot of Shem (Genesis 11.10-26)

Toledot in Genesis (PDF)

Genesis 5.1-32 and 11.10-26 (PDF)

The toledot of Shem (PDF)

Roots of Abraham across the Bible (PDF)

Toledot of Shem in the Masoretic Text and Septuagint (PDF)