Catholic Community Bible Study

Genesis Chapters 28:6 through 29 Jacob Meets Rachel, Deception for Many Years, Why Did God Choose Israel?, Leah’s broken heart, the start of the Family of Israel

Chapter 27 thru 28:5--a detailed look at the blessing "stolen" by Jacob. Or was it? Using St. Louis deMontfort and several ancient Jewish sources, we will look at this scene in a fresh way!! This is one of my all time most favorite episodes!!

EPISODE 24 CHAPTER 25:19 thru all of 26 Jacob and Esau, birth, deceit, trickery, repeats, wells, and set up

Chapter 24:10 through 25:18 Isaac & Rebekah, providence, love, death of Abe, Ishmael’s Descendants

CHAPTER 23 & 24:1-9 The death of Sarah, Finding Isaac’s wife Rebekah, The Holy Land as a type

Chapter 22 The Almost Sacrifice of Isaac, Many ties to Jesus, Christian and Jewish Commentaries, our own sacrifices to God

Chapters 21 thru 22:2. Birth of Isaac, Ishmael leaves, Covenant with Abimelech, the sacrifice, Moriah

GENESIS Chapter 19: 27 thru Chapter 20 Senses of Scripture, Sin of Lot’s family, Why judgments, Repeated story, Literary Structure, Abimelech

GENESIS Chapter 19: 1-26 Sodom and Gomorrah, the sins, Lot and his wife, turning back to sin

GENESIS Chapter 17 & 18. Name Change, Circumcision, Covenant, Laughing, Isaac, the Three in One, Abraham bargaining with God, intro to Sodom and Gomorrah.

CHAPTER 16 Thru 17:8 Falling and failing, Hagar, El Roi, Ishmael, Islam, the Soap Opera reality, Abram’s New Name!

CHAPTERS 14:17- all of 15 The Word of the Lord, Faith of Abram counted as Righteousness, Count the Stars, Covenant, Sacrifice

CHAPTERS 12:10-14:20 Prophecy in Names, Review of Abe, Down to Egypt, God’s plans and our plans, Lot, the battle, Melchizedek

CHAPTERS 10-12:9 The table of nations, the Tower of Babel, lineage to Abram, the call and departure of Abram

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