What does Genesis chapter 22 mean?

Answer 1

In the book of genesis chapter 19 verses 32-37. Tells how shamelessly Lots two daughters made Lot drunk and then slept with him in the cave. And they bore sons, the first onewas called Moab. And the second was called Ben Ammi.The ancestors of the Amonites. And these two tribes troubled the Isrealites.

Answer 2

Genesis ch.11 has two subjects.

1) The Tower of Babel was a historic event whose motivation was self-aggrandizement ("Let us make a name for ourselves"). It also contained elements of idolatry and an attempt by one person to rule the whole known world.

God confounded this effort in order to teach the obvious object-lesson, and also to make feasible the spread of Abraham's teachings. Abraham was already born by the time the Tower was being built.

2) The genealogy which comprises most of Genesis 11 traces the generations from Noah to Abraham, to show us precisely where Abraham stemmed from and when he lived. The descendants of other branches, even among Abraham's wider family (such as Aram and Joktan) are listed briefly and then ignored, since they did not compare to Abraham in piety. Here too, the lesson is clear. Abraham is still revered 3800 years later, while his contemporaries are hardly known today.

Answer 3

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Genesis chapter 4 is a continuation of the Yahwist creation story that begins at Genesis 2:4b. Creation stories are intended to tell us why we are here, where we came from and something about our legendary past.

Verse 1 tells of the birth of Cain. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that Eve compares herself as creator to God: "God created a man, and now so have I (Hebrew: qanithi 'ish 'eth 'Adonai)." The conventional translation ("I have gotten a man from, or with the help of, the Lord") is an interpretive interpolation that makes Eve seem grateful and even pious.

In verse 2, Eve again bore his brother, Abel. Notice that when Abel is born, his mother does not celebrate his birth. Introduced only as "his brother, Abel" he seems to be an afterthought - there is no described relation to his mother, only to Cain. Kass says Abel is important only or mainly as Cain's brother. His biblical role is to be killed by Cain, and no more. Even his name is homonymous with a biblical word that means "breath that vanishes". Asaph Sagiv suggests that the Cain and Abel story represents a biblical countermyth to the Egyptian story of Osiris and his brother Seth.

Chapter 4 continues with a list of the descendants of Cain, providing a unique occupation for each of them, thus providing an explanation of how these important early occupations came about. Then, in verses 25 and 26, Eve gives birth to Seth, and Seth fathers Enoch, commencing the biblical ancestry of Noah.

Answer 4

There are two different creation stories in Genesis, and chapter 1 is the bulk of the first creation story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a), believed to have been written by the Priestly source.

Most believe that verse 1:1 correctly reads "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," as stated in the King James Version and most other English translations. But as long ago as the eleventh century CE, the influential Jewish scholar, Rashi, said that Genesis should really be read, "When God began to create" or "In the beginning of God's creation." In other words, this creation story begins with a pre-existing world, and God's first act of creation was to create light. With this act of creation the day and night existed, although paradoxically, the sun and moon were not created until much later.

Chapter one finishes on day six, with God creating the animals of the earth and then man, both male and female together, to have dominion over them.

This creation story contrasts with the second creation story (Genesis 2:4b-2:20), wherein God's first act of creation was to create Adam, then plant a garden, create every animal and finally create Eve from Adam's rib. The second creation story contains hidden moral messages, entirely missing from the first story which is more intent on telling us where we came from and why we are here.

For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation

Answer 5

It means that God is the creator of the universe, including us. Therefore, the world, and our lives, are purposeful and we are responsible to Him.
Note:

1) According to tradition, there is only one Genesis creation-narrative, with ch.2 serving as an expansion of the brevity of ch.1, not a separate set of events (Rashi commentary, Gen.2:8).2) Jewish tradition is that God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30). Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1 states emphatically that this is a fundamental tradition.

3) It may be noted that the same literary devices which the Torah employs to enrich its text, have been seized upon by "Bible-critics" in their ongoing attempts to undermine it. The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of these devices, which include:

recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,

employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,

using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,

speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,

and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source (Exodus 24:12), others such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) attempted to artificially turn the Torah's text into its own undoing. This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as Archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim, whose falsehood has been pointed out:

http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=6&article=1131(a Christian author)

http://www.whoreallywrotethebible.com/excerpts/chapter4-1.php

http://www.pearlmancta.com/BiblicalcriticswrongRShlomoCohen.htm

And see also the wider picture:

http://judaism.answers.com/hebrew/does-archaeology-support-the-hebrew-bible

Answer 6

Genesis chapter 22 was an event in which God tested Abraham as to whether he loved Him more than his own son Isaac, or not. See also:

Biography of Abraham

Answer 7

Genesis 11:1-9 tells the story of the Tower of Babel. This was written during the Babylonian Exile. The exiled Jews had never before seen a great cosmopolitan city like Babylon, and were in awe of the great ziggurut and at the same time surprised to meet people who spoke so many different languages. They associated the tower, which seemed to reach the heavens, and the many strange languages, and so developed the story of the Tower of Babel.

Genesis 11:10 continues the genealogy from chapter 10, that was interrupted by the insertion of the Babel story. The genealogy continues until Abram and Sarai, who was barren, and then the death of Terah in the city of Haran, at the age of two hundred and five years.

Answer 8

Genesis ch.11 has two subjects.

1) The Tower of Babel was a historic event whose motivation was self-aggrandizement ("Let us make a name for ourselves"). It also contained elements of idolatry and an attempt by one person to rule the whole known world.

Link: The Tower

God confounded this effort in order to teach the obvious object-lesson, and also to make feasible the spread of Abraham's teachings. Abraham was already born by the time the Tower was being built.

Link: Abraham's teachings

2) The genealogy which comprises most of Genesis 11 traces the generations from Noah to Abraham, to show us precisely where Abraham stemmed from and when he lived. The descendants of other branches, even among Abraham's wider family (such as Aram and Joktan) are listed briefly and then ignored, since they did not compare to Abraham in piety. Here too, the lesson is clear. Abraham is still revered 3800 years later, while his contemporaries are hardly known today.

See also the other Related Link.

Link: The Hebrew Bible's reliability

Answer 9

It refers to chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis, in the Chrisitian Bible.

Answer 10

The book of Genesis chapter 12 is about the call of Abraham.