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Where Sin Abounds: The Spread of Sin and the Curse in the Book of Genesis with Special Focus on the Patriarchal Narratives is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nearly all scholars divide Genesis into primeval and patriarchal history, though they debate the precise point of division. One reason advanced to justify the division is a thematic shift. In primeval history, the narrator focuses on the origin and spread of sin, as well as God’s consequent curse and judgment on humanity. In patriarchal history, however, the spread of sin theme falls off the...

Deut 4:26, 40; 7:14; 25:15; 28:4, 11; Job 20:11, 22; Ps 21:4; Prov 3:16). But for Terah to arrive at such a conclusion would have required a previously revealed divine directive for such a journey. So God must have spoken to the family while they still lived in Ur. The plausibility of such a reading is confirmed in Acts 7:2–4, where Stephen, an early Christian martyr, argues that God’s call to Abram came originally in Ur (Acts 7:2–3). A reconstruction of events suggests that after (and perhaps partly
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