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Note: During this session it was stated that God "delivered Egypt" .
Obviously it was Israel that was "delivered" FROM Egypt.
The Lost World of Genesis One-Session 9
The Lost World of Genesis
One-Session 9
Doyle Walker / General
The Seven Days of Genesis 1
Relate to the Cosmic Temple
Inauguration
The relationship between cosmos and temple in the Bible
and in the ancient world, and particularly the common
connection between the two in creation texts suggests that
we should think of Genesis 1 in relation to a cosmic temple.
This is further confirmed by the divine rest on the seventh
day, since divine rest takes place in temples.
These ideas
should lead us to investigate what other elements of
Genesis 1 might be affected by thinking in temple terms.
First in line is the curious fact that the number seven
appears so pervasively in temple accounts in the ancient
world and in the Bible.
The opening line of Genesis 1 has seven words, and the
central word, untranslated in English, is two Hebrew letters,
the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet: aleph and
taw.
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When one isolates the theme of time in Genesis 1, another
design pattern emerges that provides a foundation for all of
Israel’s rituals of sacred time.
there are many other ways the number seven is symbolic in
the Genesis narrative: there are seven words in Genesis 1:1,
and fourteen words in Genesis 1:2.
There are seven
paragraphs in Genesis 1:1-2:3 marked by “evening and
morning.”
The concluding seventh paragraph in Genesis
2:1-3 begins three lines which have seven words each (Gen
2:2-3a).
Each of the key words in Genesis 1:1 are repeated by
multiples of seven in Genesis 1:2-2:3.
“God” = 35x (7 x 5) “land” = 21x (7 x 3) “skies” = 21x (7 x 3)
Key words repeated seven times: “light” and “day” on day 2
“light” on day 4 “living creature” ח) הי ) on days 5-6 “God
saw that it was good” God speaks 10 times in Genesis
1:1-2:3.
Seven times are divine creative commands to the
creation itself: “let there be….”
Three times are divine
initiatives toward humanity: “let us make ‘adam…,” “be
fruitful and multiply,” and “behold I have given to you….”
scholar Umberto Cassuto:
“To suppose that all these appearances of the number
seven are mere coincidence is not possible.
This numerical
symmetry is, as it were, the golden thread that binds
together all the part of the section.”
(Umberto Cassuto,
From Adam to Noah: A Commentary on the Book of
Genesis)
All of this numerical symbolism is completely intentional.
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The authors want us to learn that seven represents both a
whole completed creation and a journey to that
completeness.
Seven was symbolic in ancient near eastern and Israelite
culture and literature.
It communicated a sense of
“fullness” or “completeness” ש) בע “seven” is spelled with
the same consonants as the word ש בע “complete/full”)
.
This makes sense of the pervasive appearance of “seven”
patterns in the Bible.
For more information on this, Tim
cites Maurice H. Farbridge’s book, Studies in Biblical and
Semitic Symbolism, 134-37.[2]
Thus the seven days of the Genesis account of origins has a
familiarity that can hardly be coincidental and tells us
something about the seven-day structure in Genesis 1 that
we did not know before and that is not transparent to
modern readers.
That is, if Genesis 1 is a temple text, the
seven days may be understood in relation to some aspect
of temple inauguration.
What would days of inauguration
have to do with creation?
What is the connection?
If
Genesis 1 were an account of material origins, there would
be no connection at all.
But as an account of functional
origins, creation and temple inauguration fit hand in glove.
Given the relationship of the temple and the cosmos, the
creation of one is also the creation of the other.
The temple
is made functional in the inauguration ceremonies, and
therefore the temple is created in the inauguration
ceremony.
So also the cosmic temple would be made
functional (created) in an inauguration ceremony.
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We must draw an important distinction between the
building of a temple and the creation of a temple.
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