1. Title and Authorship
   1. Torah or Pentateuch
   2. Genesis
      1. "beginning" or "origin"
   3. Authorship: Unknown
   4. Time Written: Not for certain
   5. Possible Sources
      1. Yahwistic
      2. Elohistic
      3. Priestly
      4. Deuteronomic
2. Content
   1. Primeval narratives
      1. Gen. 1-11
   2. Patriarchal narratives/traditions
      1. Gen. 12-50
3. Genesis 1-2: Two Creation Accounts
   1. Theocentric (1:1-2:4a)
      1. Focus on Creator (God) and what He made
      2. Creatio ex nihilo (out of nothing)
      3. 6 day creation
         1. Day 1: Light and darkness
         2. Day 2: Water and sky
         3. Day 3: Land and plants
         4. Day 4: sun, moon, and stars
         5. Day 5: birds and sea creatures
         6. Day 6: Humanity
         7. Day 7: Rested--> The Sabbath
   2. Anthropocentric (2:4b-25)
      1. Focus on God as Creator + nature of the human individual
         1. Vocation
         2. Permission
            1. Not Absolute Freedom
         3. Prohibition
            1. Calls for obedience to God
      2. Garden of Eden
         1. Tree of life
         2. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil
      3. The creating of the woman
4. Genesis 3: Fall of Man (Sin)
   1. Guilt and Shame
      1. Nakedness
      2. Hiding
      3. Excuses
   2. Relationships Broken
      1. divine-human
      2. interpersonal
      3. Nature
   3. Death
   4. Expulsion from the Garden
   5. Grace
      1. Gen. 3:15--> victory over sin through the Messiah
         1. Protevangelium
5. Genesis 4: Cain and Abel
   1. Cain= gardener
      1. Killed Abel
         1. Rejected and a wanderer
   2. Abel= worked with animals
      1. Accepted yet killed by Cain
6. Genesis 5: Genealogy
   1. Enoch--> Taken to heaven
   2. Methuselah--> 969 years old
7. Genesis 6-8: Noah, the Flood, and the Covenant
   1. Humanity was corrupt
   2. Noah built ark
      1. Took male and female of every animal
      2. Came to rest on Mt. Ararat
   3. Flood lasted over a year
   4. Covenant: God won't destroy earth again with a flood
      1. Symbolized by a rainbow
      2. God's 1st covenant
   5. Gilgamesh epic
      1. Pagan story of a worldwide flood
8. Genesis 9-10: Genealogy
   1. Shem
      1. Ancestor of Semitic people
   2. Ham
      1. Cursed
      2. Ancestor of Canaan
   3. Japheth
9. Genesis 11: Tower of Babel and Confusion of Languages
   1. Same language= Unity and pride
      1. Rebelled against God (Gen. 1:28)
         1. Babylonian temple towers= ziggurates
   2. Different languages= confusion and scattering