We sometimes believe God would listen to us if we could just calm things down a little and finish up the dusting. The patriarchal narratives of Genesis offer no support to such an idea. Hagar’s remarkable interaction with Abraham’s God is unruly from start to finish. Yet the son of this servant of Abraham’s wife [...]
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heaven’s unruly engagement: Genesis 16
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Genesis, textures on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
hope, futility, hope: Genesis 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Genesis, textures on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the ‘account of Adam’s line’ that appears in Genesis chapter five, the genealogy’s structure assumes the very shape of the human situation. The summary of each individual’s history begins with life and ends with death, this for a race that the narrative presents as deathless until they rebelled against the Creator who blessed them [...]
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