Tracing the Covenant

Tells the story of creation

Tells the story of how sin entered the world

Genesis 1-11...

The story of Babel shows how

The Genesis stories show how God

God promises Abraham that he will

Through the Creation story, we learn that God wants us to

Joseph fails to save his family from famine

Tells the story of primeval history

In the story of Abraham's test, the biblical writer wants us to focus on

The end of the Flood is marked with a rainbow that is

he forgives his brothers for selling him into slavery

Abraham is considered the patriarch of only Judaism

Jacob is renamed Israel after his encounter with the mysterious being.

Genesis ch 3-11 explains why things went wrong in the world that God created to be good.

Joseph is a patriarch

The authors of Noah were most interested in figuring out the historical causes of the flood.

one of this pair killed the other

Tells the story of the escalation of sin

a twin who is renamed Israel

Rebekah believes Esau is destined to be the heir to Isaac

This child of Isaac and Rebekah manages to gain the birthright of his firstborn twin

Patriarchs of Judaism

Israel means