Zusammenfassung der Ressource
OLD TESTAMENT- COOPER HANFT
- 1. CREATION
- Adam and Eve are first people
- God breathes into Adam to create him
- God makes Eve to give Adam company
- First thing God says is bad is loneliness
- First thing God says is very good is women
- Women's curse was pain in childbirth and
desire for man to have control over her;
- Man's curse was that he had to
work
- God didn't want it to be like this...
- 2. THE FLOOD
- 40 days and 40 nights of rain
- Ark floats around for 120 days
- Ark touched land and rain stopped on 17th of Nisan,
SAME DAY AS JESUS ROSE FROM THE CROSS!!!
- When the ark hit land there was a rainbow
- God tells Noah to build an ark
- 1 male and 1 female of every animal on the ark as well as Noah and his fam
- 3. BLESSING OF ABRAHAM
- Name was originally Abram but God changed it to Abraham
- Wife's name was Sarai but god changed it to Sarah
- God promises Abraham 3 things
- 1. great nation
- 2. posses the land
- owning land=respect
- 3.descendants will be a blessing to the world
- descendants will be as numerous as the stars
- has chosen son, Isaac, with Sarah
- has non chosen son, Ishmael, with Hagar
- 4. JACOB AND HIS FAMILY
- Son of Isaac and Rebecca
- Brother is Esau
- Has 12 sons with 4 women
- one of his sons is Judah, which starts the lineage of Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ= "Lion of Judah"
- favorite was joseph, who
he gave a special
rainbow coat to
- Joseph's jealous brothers kick him out of the family and fake his death
- ends up becoming prime minister of egypt
- has a child with his dead son's widow, tamar
- 5. THE EXODUS
- main character: moses
- referred to as God as "beautiful
does this mean he was handsome?
- mentors Joshua to take his place
- gets 10 commandments from God
- grew up as Egyptian royalty but was actually Israelite
- frees Israelites of slavery after 430 years
- God inflicts 10 plagues on Egyptians to make
Pharaoh let his people (Israelites) be free
- Post-slavery, Israelites wander in wilderness for 40 years
- 7. KINGDOM
- land divided:
- Israel
- northern kingdom
- capital: samaria
- first king: Jeraboam
- Judah
- southern kingdom
- capital: jerusalem
- first king: rehoboam
- 8. EXILE
- Assyrians
- extremely cruel country
- if you don't immediately surrender, they entire the
country and maim anyone they see
- take over the northern kingdom, Israel
- have kids with remaining people, kids called Samaritans
- Jews don't like Samaritans out of racism because
they were mixed races and had Assyrian blood
- Babylon
- take over southern kingdom, Judah
- instead of wiping you out, they keep you alive but continuosly tax you instead
- after living in exile for 70 years, the jews finally escape
- old testament ends with jews waiting for a new king
- relocate through mediterranean (diaspora)
- 6. JUDGES
- first years of Israel's freedom
- rather than kings, ruled by judges
- judges appointed by God
- had a woman judge: Deborah
- significant because of lack of main women in bible
- "mother of israel"
- lead by Joshua into Canaan to set up this time period