Series 11: The Christian Mythos

Abraham and Isaac as types of God the Father and His son, Jesus. The love story of Isaac and Rebecca. The death of Abraham and

Isaac is finally born to Sarah. Almost immediately, Abraham‘s legacy is threatened when God commands him to sacrifice his newborn son.

Abraham meets the Holy Trinity by the sacred trees of Mamre. Lot is saved from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Abram deepens his relationship with God. Rituals of animal sacrifice and human circumcision seal the covenant. Abram becomes Abraham, the father of nations.

Abram rescues Lot. Melchizedek celebrates a type of the Eucharist. A look at Jewish, pagan and Christian ceremonies. The identity of Melchizedek, King of Salem

God establishes a covenant with Abram. The journey to Egypt. Altars in Canaan.

The Table of Nations. The Tower of Babel. Introduction to Abram. Genealogy and numerology in the Bible. God brings diversity to humanity.

God chastises the world with the Flood. Only Noah and his family are spared. A breakdown of symbols and morality in the flood narrative.

Exitus and Reditus. The theology of the genealogies in the Bible.

The blood of thy brother cries out to me from the earth! The typology of Abel and Christ.

Adam and Eve listen to the serpent, and suffer exile from Paradise as a consequence. Adam, Eve, the tree and the serpent prefigure Christ, Mary,

Made from earth, and from each other, man and woman meet in Paradise. The meaning of marriage. The eschatology of Genesis.

The creation of the world in seven days. Allegory and Anagogy. The textual loop of Scripture.

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