Old Testament
Presentation: Genesis 1-11 (ppt)
Course: Old
Testament History
Introduction to the book of Genesis
Part One (Genesis 1-11)
6. Noah’s
Gen 6:14
Gopherwood
Compartments
Cover with pitch
Gen 6:15
300 cubits length
50 cubits wide
30 cubits high
Gen 6:16
Window cubit from top. Door on side. Lower, second and third floors.
Noah's
Speculation over a satellite picture that appears to show a
man made object on
Recent studies suggest this is not a man made object but markings from the rock formation.
7. Noah’s
drunkenness (Genesis
First mention of strong drink
Noah planted a vineyard.
Drank of the wine and became drunk.
Noah’s drunkenness appears almost accidental.
Unaware of the
dangers.
What did Ham do?
Ham looked upon his fathers nakedness – but it was more than just looking.
His father knew what his younger son had done to him (Gen 9:24).
Shem and Japheth walked backwards and placed a blanket on their father.
Covered his nakedness without looking.
8. The Sons of
Noah – the spread of the nations.
Ham (burning heat) – the races of
Shem (splendour or glory) – Semite nations. Israelites
Japheth (enlargement) – European nations
Cursed be Canaan – servitude
Blessed be the God of Shem (praise)
God will enlarge Japheth (promise)
Japheth will dwell in the tents of Shem.
The tents of Shem bring blessing to Japheth who will be
enlarged and
Genealogy
The Flood - Abram
|
BC |
From Adam |
||
|
Date of the Flood |
2348 |
1656 |
Gen 11:10 |
|
Arphaxad born |
2346 |
1658 |
Gen 11:10 |
|
Shem died |
1846 |
2158 |
Gen 11:11 |
|
Salah born |
2311 |
1693 |
Gen 11:12 |
|
Arphaxad died |
1998 |
2006 |
Gen 11:13 |
|
Eber born |
2281 |
1723 |
Gen 11:14 |
|
Salah died |
1878 |
2126 |
Gen 11:15 |
|
Peleg born |
2247 |
1757 |
Gen 11:16 |
|
Eber died |
1817 |
2187 |
Gen 11:17 |
|
Reu born |
2217 |
1787 |
Gen 11:18 |
|
Peleg died |
2008 |
1996 |
Gen 11:19 |
|
Serug born |
2185 |
1819 |
Gen 11:20 |
|
Reu died |
1978 |
2026 |
Gen 11:21 |
|
Nahor born |
2155 |
1849 |
Gen 11:22 |
|
Serug died |
1955 |
2049 |
Gen 11:23 |
|
Terah born |
2126 |
1878 |
Gen 11:24 |
|
Nahor died |
2007 |
1997 |
Gen 11:25 |
|
Abram, Nahor,
Haran |
2056 |
1948 |
Gen 11:26 |
|
Alternative
date |
1996 |
2008 |
|
|
Sarai born |
2046 |
1958 |
|
|
Alternative
date |
1986 |
2018 |
|
|
Terah died in Haran |
1921 |
2083 |
Gen 11:32 |
9. Nimrod and the
founding of
Genesis 10:8-9
'And
Nimrod’s kingdom – King over the people.
Idolatry was central to the building of his kingdom.
Proverb ‘Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD’.
'…before the LORD’ Hebrew: Mynp 'paniym'
Means in this context 'in opposition to the Lord’
His kingdom was established in rebellion against the LORD.
He introduced an idolatrous counterfeit. Cf. Rev 17:5.
Nimrod
Genesis 10:8-10 ‘And Cush
begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD:
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was
Erech - Uruk (Warka)
Calneh – possibly
Cities dedicated to particular deity.
Uruk dedicated to Inanna (Mother goddess).
Warka – Uruk (Erech Gen
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Found at Warka – Uruk (Erech Gen
Dedicated to Ishtar (Inanna)
1. Face of a woman from Uruk
Made of Marble.
Size 20.3cm
Date c. 3000 BC
2. Religious Votive Cone ´(freewill offering cone made on behalf of the King)
Made by priests.
Pilgrims bought the cones to place them in the wall of the temple to the goddess Ishtar (Inanna). It was on offering for the welfare of the King.
'For Sin-ga-shid, the mighty hero, King of Erech, King of Amanu, in the temple of the goddess Ishtar which he built in the royal residence of his kingdom.'
Date: 2100 BC
Flourished under Sargon c.2334 BC.
Who established an Akkadian Empire.
Daughter of Sargon made priestess of moon god in
She took the name Enheduanna –
wrote hymns to the gods of
She was succeeded by Enmenanna, a daughter of Naram-Sin.
Naram-Sin the grandson of Sargon
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Found at
1. Stele of Naram-Sin King of
The Akkadian King leads his troops under the protection of the gods. His horned helmet denotes his deity, and he tramples his enemies under his feet.
Kept in the Louvre,
Akkadian language
The Akkadian language became the language of diplomacy in the
Ancient Near East.
Cunieform
tablets have been found at
Calneh (location unknown
possibly
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The ziggurat of the
More cities built
Genesis 10
11
Out of that land he went forth into
12
and Resen between
Nineveh - Kuyunjik
Rehoboth-Ir (Not known)
Calah - Nimrud
Resen (Not known)
Founded by Ninus (Nimrod)
Situated by the Tigris
Known for worship to the goddess Ishtar (also known as Inanna)
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Image of Inanna from c. 2254-2193 BC
The Libraries of
Kuyunjik (
Two libraries of cunieform clay tablets were discovered in Nineveh.
• In the Palace of Sennacherib, and
• In the Palace of Ashurbanipal. Ashurbanipal reigned Assyria between 669-633 BC.
Over 20,000 clay tablets were found in the ruins.
They are all damaged so they probably form about 10,000 texts.
The Epic of
Gilgamesh
It was in the library of Ashurbanipal that the Epic of Gilgamesh was found.
The tablets are now in the
The author of the epic was a person called Shin-eqi-unninni.
Gilgamesh is thought to have reigned over Uruk in
The Epic consists of 12 stone tablets written in the Akkadian language
Tablet XI contains the Babylonian record of the flood.
Epic of Gilgamesh - King of Uruk
(c.2700 BC)
Poem telling the story of Gilgamesh's journey to find the spring of youth.
The futile search for immortality.
The Babylonian record of the flood is contained within the epic of Gilgamesh.
Babylonian record of the flood
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Tablet XI
Gilgamesh Epic
The flood to destroy the world. Utnapishtim built an ark to preserve living things. When the flood ended birds were sent out to see if they found dry land.
Kept in the
30km South East of
Assyrian palace found here by Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894).
The Black Obelisk (Jehu) was found here in 1845
Genesis 11:1-9
One language –
sound
•
One
speech - words
• Refusing to obey the word of the Lord.
• God scattered the nations by confusing the languages
Character of the builders of
Man's independence of God, exaltation of himself, rebellion against God's word.
• Self Dependence – man made materials (means to glorify themselves)
• Self Exaltation – let us build to the heavens (a city and a tower)
• Self Adoration – let us make us a name (to be worshipped)
It was built by Nimrod in opposition to worship of the true God.
The
See Revelation 17:5
The worship of the Mother and child began with Babylonian religion through Nimrod’s wife, Semiramis.
Nebuchadnezzar’s hanging gardens were named after her.
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Painting:
Museum Boymans-van
Beuningen in
Ziggurat means 'rise high'.
It had different stages.
The Ziggurat was associated with temple worship.
Josephus Book 1 Chapter IV
2. (113) Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah—a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe to God, as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness.
(114) He also
gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning
men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his
power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to
drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters
to be able to reach! and that he would avenge himself
on God for killing their forefathers!
3. (115) Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work; and by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than anyone could expect;
(116) but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners;
(117) but he caused a
tumult among them, by producing in them various languages, and causing that,
through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand
one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called
Babylonian religion - Mystery Religion
Anu – the father of the Anunnaki.
Anunnaki – the High Council of the Sumerian gods
Triad
Anu (the sky god) – the Head.
Enlil –the inheritor of the throne and
Enki (Ea) – regarded as the creator
Annuna – fifty great gods
Igigi – minor gods
Understanding the mysteriums
The son of Enlil and Ninlil is Nanna (Ninlil was raped)
En was the chief priest - 'lil' means 'air'
Nin means lady
This could be based on Genesis 3 where Satan deceived Eve
Nanna means illuminator
The son of Nanna – Shamash (Sun)
The consort of Shamash – Aya (Dawn)
Nanna the moon god was greater than Shamash the sun god. Nanna is the interpreter of the mystery. Shamash receives light from Nanna, Aya the dawn arises from the revelation given to Shamash.
Epic of Gilgamesh - Inanna daughter of Anu.
Inanna also known as Ishtar- Mother goddess.
Abram left Ur with his father and his wife, Sarai, and His nephew Lot for
Abram’s family worshipped the Babylonian gods
Joshua 24:2-3
'And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the
river, and led him throughout all the
Nanna (Sin) – god of the
moon
Worshipped primarily in
Nanna was one of the three sky deities
Nanna – the moon god
Shamash – the sun god
Ishtar (Inanna) – the queen of the heavens (goddess of love and war).
Nanna was the father of Shamash who was the escort of Aya (Dawn)
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Ziggurat in
The
.
The City of
The course of the
Population: estimated at up to 65,000.
Language: Sumerian till about c. 2000BC then Akkadian
Law: Had its
own law code Zur-Nammu of
This was almost three centuries before the famous Law Code of Hammurabi (1780 BC).
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c. 2600 – 2400BC – Thought to have been carried on a pole as a Standard from Ur of Chaldees.
One side depicts War and one side depicts Peace.
Kept in the
The Code of Hammurabi (1780 BC)
This is one of the
earliest codes of law.
Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC). King of
Carving at the top
shows Hammurabi being given the symbols of authority
from the god Marduk.
Inscribed
with 282 laws concerning business, property, work, family, injury.
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Found:
Now kept in the Louvre, Paris
Height: 2.25m Width:
0.65m
Mari
If Abram followed
the
Modern city at time
of Abraham – city destroyed by Hammarabi (1759 BC)
City known for hair
styles and clothes
Major trade centre
Worshipped Sumerian
gods and goddesses
Expansion of trade
from Mari meant that knowledge of Sumerian gods taken to cities such as
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1. Image of Intendant Ebih II from the
2. Tablet of King Zimri-Lin
(c.1780 BC) from the
Kept: Louvre, Paris
25,000 cunieform tablets were found in the
The tablets give
details concerning matters of state.
Haran
Centre for the
worship of the Moon god Sin (Babylonian)
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Bee-houses
in Haran.
Made
without wood.
This style of house
was used in
Abram’s father, Terah, died in
Abram was 75 years
old when he left
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