Genesis Audio Now Available for Download
The audio from a two and a half day intensive graduate seminar on the book of Genesis is now available.
The audio covers critical passages in the book of Genesis, helping you to understand the Hebrew text behind the English translation. The series will be valuable and enlightening for everyone regardless of your prior academic background. It is designed to reveal to you how the structure and grammar of the book shows God’s secret hand moving through human history.
Click here to go to the page where you can download the audio files. A voluntary, tax-deductible donation of $35 to At God’s Table ministry is expected appreciated. 🙂
UPDATE Hey TWers…it’s Patrick, Skip’s Tech Geek. I added the “expected appreciated” line last night right before this went out. It was just a joke!! Apparently not everyone realized that and a few were offended. The Genesis audio class, just like all of Skip’s audio files, have suggested donations, not required donations. Shalom, Patrick
Sorry, son, that some readers don’t appreciate your humor as much as I do. 🙂
I just got finished listening to disk 1 of the Genesis Lecture Series.
I was thoroughly humbled!
I am sooo excited that we are living in this “Kyros” (spelling?) moment of time.
We are told in the new Testament that knowledge will increase. These teachings are an indication of that increase!
It’s learning to read and see the Word in a whole new way, with new doors opening that were previously closed.
I just thank Adoniah for allowing us to live now, in this exciting breakthrough into His Holy Word.
I started studying Hebrew a few years ago and can now sound out the words, But I only know the meaning of some of them. I also have learned the numbers associated with the letters of the “Aleph Bet” so your lecture is not overwhelming to me as far as the Hebrew words and letters and gematria go.
But as we go through the MEANING of the Hebrew words, I am astounded!
Best $35 dollars I have ever spent! Bless you in your “work”.
I know this post is years old, but I just started this study, and I am hoping someone will still reply. I was very much enjoying the study when in disc 4, I came up against something that very distracted me from everything else I was learning. Skip’s comments on Adam and his knowing or yada with the animals. First of all I am not seeing the word “yada” in the text, in either my bible with Strong’s numbers or in my transliterated bible. Now that is not to say it is not there, the word kenigdo was not in my bible with Strong’s numbers either, but it was in my transliterated text. So is it somewhere else? Also I’m just wondering if you could share with me the sources for the rabbi’s speculating about this. I hope you don’t mind me asking, I am not in anyway trying to be confrontational, but I must say at the moment it has ruined the study for me. So I am trying to understand, I have listened to your Matthew study and greatly enjoyed it, but at this moment I can’t move past why you would include this tidbit in the study, even if the Rabbis have said it. Would God have allowed Adam to have sex with the animals? I just can’t wrap my mind around that. Isn’t God unchanging? Again I am not trying to be confrontational at all, just trying to understand.
While I don’t remember the exact comment now (since the lectures were given quite a few years ago), I can say this. There is a rabbinic LEGEND that during the interim between the murder of Abel and the birth of Seth, Adam left Havvah and sought relationships with others. This is how they explain the 160 year gap. This does not mean Adam had sex with animals. It means that he left Havvah and tried to find another companion.
Now before you go crazy about this, think for a minute. The rabbis do not suggest there was sexual involvement. They only suggest that Adam sought another companion. The legend attempts to explain why there were no other children in 160 years. AND (this is important) if this is a tribal account, it does not rule out the possibility that there were other homo sapiens, just not other “men” according to the Genesis 1:26-27 statement. If you aren’t following this, let me know. But the rabbinic explanation needs to be included since it demonstrates how different the Christian view is from the Jewish view.
Now, keep going. Don’t let this completely distract you.
Thank-you for posting so promptly. I really appreciate that you are willing to take the time. I haven’t yet listened to the rabbinic legend about Adam going off for a 100 years or so. I totally respect the rabbis and their views into the text, although it certainly was hard to wrap my mind around the first rabbinic legend I heard. I haven’t heard this particular story yet, and I am looking forward to it. God is slowly bringing me out of my Greek Mindset. However the comment I am having a hard time with is in reference to Genesis 2:19-20. It hardly seems fair of me to ask you to explain, since it was an offhand comment in a lecture quite a few years ago. So to provide you with more details, I looked the exact comment, it is from Disc 4. It starts at about minute 8. This is right after God has said that he needed to make Adam an Ezer Kenigdo. He then takes Adam off to name the animals. You mentioned that although it does not say it in the text, the rabbis surmised that Adam knew (yada) the animals, and that he knew them enough to know that there was no Ezer Kenigdo among the them. Then you pointed out that this “knowing” or yada is very intimate and could involve sexual relations. After this knowing, Adam figures out that none of the animals can be his ezer kenigdo. Once he came to this conclusion, God made woman out of Adam’s side. I know that yada often does involve sex, but God also wants us to yada Him, as in Isaiah 43:10, so it can’t always have that meaning. And isn’t God also unchanging? Having sex with animals is an abomination, so how could he allow Adam to “know” the animals in this way, if this surmise was true. I’m new at this so maybe this isn’t always true, but it seems that when Rabbis do take these liberties, they use words in the actual text to draw out these meanings. knowing that makes me even more confused, since the word yada is not even in these 2 texts. Again thank-you so much for responding so quickly. I really appreciate your Matthew study, and am looking forward to understanding Genesis better.
I am lecturing tonight and tomorrow so it might be awhile before I can answer this properly.
Kirsten,
I have not listened to this particular set of teachings but i am familiar w/rabbinical thought. I offer this as a concept to consider, not a hard and fast ‘answer’.
When Adam was presented the animals and he figured out they were not suitable for him, it does not mean or even imply that he had to have had sex w/him. If that was what he was looking for it might just be that even in a cursory glance he would immediately know that they were unsuitable for him in this regard.
One doesn’t have to have sex, or even attempt the act, to ‘know’ that it would be futility in action. “Knew them enough” doesn’t have to mean “had or attempted to have” sex. I means he knew what he was looking for, looked at each animal and made the decision as he named them.
Just a thought.
Thank you Barbara and Skip for your answers. I just wanted to let you know I have been studying into this a little bit and I think I understand better now. The combination of Skip’s lectures and Rabbi Fohrman helped a lot. Thanks!!