The Book of Beginnings

Studies in Genesis

Lesson 2 : Introduction – How Moses Structured the Book of Genesis

STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS: PRIMEVAL AND PATRIARCHAL HISTORY – OTHER STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS: GEOGRAPHICAL – THE tôledôth STRUCTURE – tôledôth INTRODUCES A NEW SECTION – HOW IS tôledôth USED? – THE ‘REJECTED’ LINE – PROLOGUE AND THE TEN tôledôth – OTHER USES OF tôledôth IN GENESIS – tôledôth OUTSIDE OF GENESIS – THE FIVE GENEALOGIES – APPENDIX 1: ’ēlleh tôledôth AND sēper tôledôth