Dr Rachelle Gilmour

*This one-day seminar is the first day of the one-week intensive ‘Book of Genesis: Politics and Promises’ and is designed for those who do not wish to enrol in the full intensive.

One-week intensive: 2, 4–7 July 2022

This one-week intensive will look at when and why the narratives of Israel’s beginnings in the book of Genesis were written through a careful study of its texts and narrative artistry. Through the stories of their ancestors, ancient Israel and Judah negotiated issues of national identity, land possession and dispossession, exiles, and refugees. In doing so, theological themes related to God’s sovereignty, divine presence and transcendence, election, the politics of gender, reconciliation, and hospitality to the stranger were formulated and debated, developing as the community went from kingdom to exile to life in the land under foreign imperial rule.  

Taught by Dr Rachelle Gilmour

Visit this page for further information and email tcts@trinity.edu.au to book.