THE EXEGESIS OF THE GIVEN TEXTS IN THE BIBLE 1. THE CALLING OF ABRAHAM Genesis 12: 1-9 Now the Lord said to Abraham‚ go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation‚ and I will bless you‚ and make your name great‚ so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you‚ and the one who curses you I will curse and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abraham went
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and deem us righteous or wicked. The near sacrifice of Isaac is undoubtedly the toughest test for Abraham to prove himself to God. The son that Abraham had longed for all his life and whom God finally provided for him was to be killed by Abraham‚ himself‚ as a sacrifice. Abraham intending to obey this seemingly merciless and unreasonable request from God was indubitably his most relevant showing of loyalty and trust. The submission of Isaac to his father is symbolic of the death of Jesus Christ‚
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context of Genesis‚ divides it into two sections. Genesis 1-10 describes the creation story and the flood. Genesis 11-50 provides the genealogy of Abraham’s family‚ back to Noah‚ followed by the tradition of the earliest ancestors of Israel (Abraham‚ Isaac and Jacob known as the ‘Patriarchs’) wherein their faith is rooted and articulated (Brueggemann‚ 2003:43.) It is essentially a book of promises‚ a preface to the history of the Israel; identifying the nation of Israel and its God (Barton 2001:39).In
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child is born and is named Ishmael. God later on tells Abraham that Ismael shall not carry on the Covenant but Sarah will have a child of her own and that child will be the Blessed child who carry on the Covenant. This child’s name will be Isaac. Even though Isaac is the Blessed child‚ when is my out and his mother are sent out into the Wilderness God Saves them blesses them I’m saying that they will be abundant have a nation of his
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A Romans 9:6-20 Exegesis Derek Fannin 04-04-2012 But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel‚7 nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but‚ “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” 8 That is‚ those who are the children of the flesh‚ these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son
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Bibliography: 1. Delaney‚ Carol. Abraham on Trial. Princeton‚ NJ: Princeton University Press‚ 1998. This book addresses the instance of Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac by examining a case where a man sacrificed his child “because God told him to” and further exploring the implications of Abraham’s actions. 2. Jeansonne‚ Sharon. The Women of Genesis: From Sarah to Potiphar ’s Wife. Minneapolis‚ MN: Augsburg Fortress
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successor in Isaac. Abraham continued to have faith in God whenever God spoke to Abraham‚ and as a final test of Abraham’s faith‚ God asked Abraham to do the unthinkable. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to the Lord in order to test Abraham’s faith. God knew that if Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son‚ Abraham must truly believe in God. Abraham took Isaac away from their lands and traveled to where God asked him to set up an altar. Then‚ just as Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac‚ a messenger
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Eliezer is a 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy living with his family in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. Eliezer is the only son of the family‚ and his parents are shopkeepers. His father is a highly respected within Sighet’s Jewish community. Eliezer also 2 older sisters‚ Hilda and Béa‚ and a younger sister named Tzipora. Eliezer is taught Jewish mysticism under Moshe‚ a local pauper. In 1944 German armies occupy Hungary‚ and soon move into Sighet. Jewish community leaders are arrested‚ valuables
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Sarah’s maidservant‚ Hagar to have a child and she did. After Hagar had Ishmael‚ god spoke to Abraham and said according to the book of genesis that‚ “she would be the mother of nation” and blessed her womb. Sarah then bore a son whom they named Isaac. When Isaac was a youth‚ god spoke to him telling him to sacrifice his son as
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THEOLOGICAL CENTRE FOR ASIA ROMANS 9:6-13 AN EXEGETICAL PAPER SUBMITTED TO DR CHUL WOO LEE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF BNT524 CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS BY JOSEPH TAN TIAN LENG SINGAPORE 30 NOVEMBER 2004 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 OVERVIEW OF ROMANS 9-11 1 TRANSLATION OF ROMANS 9:6-13 3 INNER TEXTURE 4 Repetitive Texture and Pattern 4 Opening-Middle-Closing Texture and Pattern 6 INTERTEXTURE 7 Oral-Scribal Intertexture 7 Social Intertexture 11 FOCUS:
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