We'll start with a basic question.Did you like it?
>>18220130me likes novels so yes. non-fiction is boring. me likes its sequels.
The primordial history isnt very engaging but the Jacob and Joseph arcs are both big kino. Jacob blessing Ephraim and Mesansseh is a great climax
>>18220130I will agree with >>18220276 that the stories of Jacob and Joseph are the most compelling in Genesis, especially with how they set the scene for Exodus in the next book. I do also like Abraham's set of stories though. Sodom and Gomorrah is a major highlight. There's also some pretty cool symbolic stuff with Abraham's dream of the floating torch and his near sacrifice of Isaac.The primordial history is okay. Beyond the stories of Adam and Eve and the Flood it's mostly esoteric reference material that's so old a lot of context needed to understand it is completely gone. The reference to Enoch and the Nephilim is a part I wish had more elaboration on, especially since it gets referenced occasionally in the next 4 books.Overall it's good, but Exodus is where it really begins to be great.
>>18220130The pacing was wierd. Felt like many diffrent books squished into one with some suprising omissions. They completely gloss over that Enoch guy.
>>18220130It is interesting because it is a a condensed version of several of the oldest, foundational narratives of the Israelites. Many of the narratives have expanded (original?) versions that were going around which often give insight into crucial details. For example the part about the sons of God mating with human women, only briefly mentioned, is treated much more expansively in Enoch. There's also ones about Adam and Eve and the Patriarchs. The Gnostic creation accounts flip the whole script and gives a totally different vantage point. The common midwit error is to take the accounts as literal or as exclusive dogma rather than pieces of a puzzle.
>>1822013013. The TorahBehold that the serpent does not lie to Eve in Genesis 3. God confirms it at 3:22. In Exodus 3:7-14 God states the principle of identity à la Parmenides: “I am that I am.” Leviticus 19:18 states the golden rule or Kantian categorical imperative.
