Catholic Community Bible Study

EPISODE 12 GENESIS Chapters 9 Raven and Dove, Death Penalty, New Creation, New Fall, Ham’s sin, curse of Canaan, why would God allow innocent people to be killed?

GENESIS 6:11 through Chapter 8 Literary structure, the flood, the ark, covenant

GENESIS Chapter 5-6:11 Humility, More on Enoch, Noah, Sons of God and Daughters of men, Nephilim, anthropomorphism, introduction to the flood

GENESIS Chapters 4 & 5 Cain and Abel, sin, humility, genealogies, image and likeness, long ages, Enoch

GENESIS 3:18 – 4:4 In this Episode: Curses, Father of Forgiveness, the Suffering of Christ, Banishment from Eden, Cain and Abel

GENESIS 3:7-3:17. In this Episode: Body and Soul, Blame Game, Sin, Curses

GENESIS 3:1-3:6 In this Episode: The Serpent, Plans of Satan, Details of the two Trees, Eating, The Fall

EPISODE 5 GENESIS 2:18-3:1 In this Episode: Creation of Eve, the dignity of “the Helper”, two become one, Introduction of Satan the Serpent (The Nahash)!

EPISODE 4 Read GENESIS 2:4-17 In this Episode: Chapter and verse divisions, Name Yahweh, 2nd story of Creation, Fun with Science, Soul and spirit, Eden and the Trees, Adam from the Adamah

EPISODE 3 Humankind & Sabbath GENESIS 1:26-2:3 In this Episode: creation of humankind, image and likeness, male and female, dominion over the earth, purpose and dignity, Sabbath

EPISODE 2 CHAPTER 1—CREATION Genesis 1:6-25 In this Episode: The other creation stories of the ancient world to compare and contrast, the dome separating waters, the plants and humans have very similar traits, stars and sun and moon, more plants and more animals, fun with literature, fun with Bergsma

INTRODUCTION & CHAPTER 1 1:1-5 In this episode: The introduction with title and author, genre of writing as true but poetic, discussion of Biblical myth, God’s name Elohim, creating out of nothing, revelation of the Trinity at creation, formless and void, the RUAH of God, performative utterance, and the mystery of time.