Of Paradoxes and Patterns, Side Trips and What Ifs
Israel and the United States have seemed bonded together since Israel became a nation state again in 1948. But what if their ties go deeper than politics and shared values? What if their histories follow a similar pattern from Abraham (Israel) and the Pilgrims (US) to today?
Wouldn’t that be interesting?
Update: I’ve done a 2020 update incorporating another sub-pattern: King Josiah and President Trump
Read on. Covenant Nation Introduction
Grace and peace to you,
Dori
In Section One, I discussed my hypothesis on who wrote Genesis as applied to
the first section: The book of the proceedings of the heavens and the earth, or Genesis One.
In the second section I apply my hypothesis to the book of the proceedings of Adam. In particular, I note the identical construction in the Hebrew of Genesis 1.1 and Genesis 2.4b. I think this repetitive element supports the idea that Genesis 2.4 should be divided between the two parts of the sentence and translated as the signature statement of the first section and the title of the next story, “How YHWH @Élöhîm fashioned hä@ädhäm (the man) and his wife.”
Click here for Section Two.
Grace and peace,
Dori
“Now, the phrase “@ëlleh thôlëdôth” occurring only five times and only in Genesis begs the question of why its usage was so limited, but I’ll address why I think this happened in another post given the wording. in the Masoretic.” (From “On the Generations Of: A Pattern of Usage”)
In Who Wrote Genesis: Introduction, I discussed the overall structural divisions I see in Genesis based on the hypothesis that the phrase “@ëlleh thôlëdôth” identifies the individual writings Moses used to compile the book of Genesis at the direction of the Holy Spirit. These writings set the context for Moses’ own story as well as record the earliest chapters of the Story of the Line of the Promise.
This first section looks at Genesis One (1:1 to 2:4a), “These [are] the proceedings of the heavens and the earth.” This is the story of how YHWH @Élöhîm re-formed the earth and re-filled it with life after it had become a wasteland and empty of life. My analysis finds this is an oral story written down verbatim. The signature statement does not give a human author because likely the story has no human author, only a human transcriber.
So, here’s the first part of the essay I wrote discussing my research and 
conclusions.
Grace and peace to you,
Dori
“Now, the phrase “@ëlleh thôlëdôth” occurring only five times and only in Genesis begs the question of why its usage was so limited, but I’ll address why I think this happened in another post given the wording. in the Masoretic.” (From “On the Generations Of: A Pattern of Usage”)
So, why do I think Scripture uses “@ëlleh thôlëdôth” only five times? Because I think the phrase was used to identify five writings Moses used to compile the book of Genesis, telling the Story of the Line of the Promise from the rehabilitation of the earth to the death of Jacob. A sixth scroll written in Egypt continued the Story through the death of Joseph and ended the book instead of using the signature phrase. I think these five writings were preserved in the Line of the Promise down through the generations with Jacob bringing them with him to Egypt.
So, here’s the intro of the essay that I wrote discussing my research and conclusions.
Grace and peace to you,
Dori
In this study, I look at the pattern usage in Scripture of the phrases usually translated at “These are the generations of . . .” or “Now these are the generations of . . .” The question is whether these phrases introduce a section of Scripture or conclude a section of Scripture, especially in Genesis.
Grace and peace to you,
Dori
Israel and the United States have seemed bonded together since Israel became a nation state again in 1948. But what if their ties go deeper than politics and shared values? What if their histories follow a similar pattern from Abraham (Israel) and the Pilgrims (US) to today?
Wouldn’t that be interesting?
Read on. Covenant Nation Introduction
Grace and peace to you,
Dori
P.S. I’ve done a 2020 update incorporating another sub-pattern: King Josiah and President Trump.