Consider the following questions as you read from Genesis for Monday 9/15. Bloggers, feel free to use one of these questions as a prompt for your writing. Or choose a topic of your own to write about.

• How does reading the Bible as literature differ from reading it as scripture?
• How does the author characterize God? What is his relationship with creation, including his people?
• What changes in the world after “man’s first disobedience”?
• Compare and contrast the flood stories in Gilgamesh and Genesis. What do their differences say about their functions in the larger texts the are a part of?
• Why does the Lord disregard Cain’s offering? What explanation does he offer to Cain?
• Is there pathos in the story of Abraham and Isaac? If so, where does it come from? How is the reader supposed to feel about God’s testing of Abraham?