1.10 Genesis III: Abraham is Called

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 July 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After the primeval stories, Genesis introduces the man who dominates and forms the very heart of of book, Abraham. He is the first of the patriarchs. God makes a real-estate deal with Abraham, giving him Canaan in return for eternal fidelity. Abraham has many adventures, meeting and swindling the Pharoah of Egypt; and encountering the mysterious Melkizedek, priest and king of Jerusalem. We also meet his scheming wife Sarai, his slave-wive Hagar, and his first-born son Ishmael.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles. Episode 1.10, Abraham is called.
0:46.3	Welcome back to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:49.4	In the last episode, I concluded Genesis' primeval history of the universe with the great extinction event that was Noah's flood.
0:56.9	For the place names I mentioned in this episode, you can refer to the maps I have at my website
1:02.0	www.com. Before restarting the narrative with Abraham, Genesis recounts the ten generations separating
1:11.4	him from Noah. Genesis is big on genealogies. Most are just names, but one, Nimrod gets a big
1:19.1	pop. Quote, Genesis 108. Cush also begot Nimrod, who was the first man of might on earth. He was a mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord, hence the saying, like Nimrod, a mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord.
1:36.4	The mainstays of his kingdom were Babylon, Eryk, Akad and Kalner in the land of Shinar. From that land Asha went forth and built Nineveh,
1:46.8	the city squares, Kalar and resin between Nineveh and Kalar. That is the great city.
1:53.3	End quote. After the death of Solomon, the Hebrew kingdom spent most of their existence
1:59.3	avoiding the clumping great feet of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires.
2:04.4	That those kingdoms had a common ancestor in Nimrod explained why they became so powerful.
2:11.2	The genealogy is interrupted with the story of the Tower of Babel, Baville, a tiny well-told tale that takes a dig at the land of
2:20.4	Shinar, Babylon. Long quote. Genesis 111. Everyone on earth had the same language, and as they
2:29.3	migrated from the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
2:40.6	And they said, come, let us build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for ourselves. Else we shall be scattered all over the world. Yave came down to look at the city and
2:47.8	tower that man had built, and Yave said, if as one people with one
2:53.3	language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may propose to do
2:59.0	will be out of their reach. Let us then go down and confound their speech there, so that they
3:05.5	shall not understand one another's speech.
3:08.5	Thus Yave scatter them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building
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