LA TIERRA hebrew scriptures (escrituras hebreas).ppt

Escrituras e interpretación sobre el Antiguo Testamento

1. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Proverbs 30-31 & Sirach 7.18-36
Gen. 1.1-2.3
Gen. 2.4-3.24
Gen. 6.5-9.17 & 11.1-9
Ps.8, 74, 89.6-19, 136.1-9
Is. 40.12-14 & 21-22
Job 9.4-13, 25.1-26.14

2. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Proverbs 30 – social order as divinely ordained
Proverbs 31 – the virtues of a king, the ideal wife
Sirach 7.18-36 – advice to a wealthy man
The theme: creation is divine order,
therefore social order is a reflection of the order of creation,
disruption of the social order leads to chaos

3. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
The first Creation Narrative: Gen. 1.1-2.3
The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth
(video segment/reading from Enuma Elish)
Text from the Priestly redactor
Terms:
ruach
tan/tanyim
Enuma Elish

5. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
The Hymn of Creation
Separation Population
light/dark sun/moon & stars
Waters above/below birds/fish
land/sea mammals, humanity
'and God saw that it was good', 'on the 7
th
day He
rested'

6. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Man and Woman
Made in the Divine Image
Stewards of Creation
Priestly connection to sanctity of Matrimony

7. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
The Second Creation Narrative: Gen. 2.4-3.24
Adam, Eve, and the Garden
(video segment)

8. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Gen. 2.4-3.24
The importance of language
‘man’ (‘adam) and ‘soil’ (‘adamah)

name of the garden is reminiscent of both the Akkadian word
for ‘steppe’ and the Hebrew word for pleasure
man (ish) and woman (ishah)
naked(‘erummim) and cunning (‘arum)

9. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Gen. 2.4-3.24
The importance of language
man (ish) and woman (ishah)
The words ish (man) and ishah (woman) share the letters alef shin,
which spell out eish: fire. The man has a yod within the word ish,
and woman has a hey in the word ishah. The yod and hey together
spell out the name Yah, referring to the divine Presence.

10. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Gen. 6.5-9.17
Noah and the Flood
Gen. 11.1-9
the Tower of Babel

11. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Psalms
8 – God is Creator,
humanity 'little less than gods' and stewards of Creation
74 – even though the Temple is destroyed, God is Lord of Creation
89.6-19 - “Yours are the heavens, yours the earth;
you founded the world and everything in it.”
136.1-9 God is Creator, “God's Love endures forever”

12. The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scriptures)
Wisdom and Creation
Is. 40.12-14,21-22 – God is the Creator, and the savior of His
people

Job 9.4-13 – God made the mountains and the stars
25.1-26.14 - God made all things and gave order to Creation