What is your interpretation of what god tells cain

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Assignment:

1.) How would you describe the character of God (or Yahweh/Elohim), as presented in Genesis? What words come to mind? What specific parts of the text led you to these conclusions?

2.) What is your interpretation of what God tells Cain, at the beginning of the story of Cain and Able?

3.) Why do you think the writers and editors who put Genesis together chose to include the story of Cain and Able? What is significant about this episode?

4.) It was standard religious practice in the ancient world for deities to be portrayed as demanding human sacrifice. With this fact in mind, how do you interpret the episode in Genesis concerning Abraham and Isaac? What do these characters learn? What would this story teach the Jewish people as they attempted to forge their own identity in the world?

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