The Second Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 5 - 10 June 2012
The Second Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 5 - 10 June 2012 Genesis 3:8-15 Psalm 130 II Corinthians 4:13-5:1 St. Mark 3:20-35 Background: Genesis The Book of Genesis is more than that. It is not a book in our modern sense of the word. In fact the Hebrew word that is usually translated as “book” is the word sefer (scroll) and its etymology comes from the notion of “something recounted”. How different that is for us. That a book should contain the witness of our memory suggest reading that which we already know. There are two major recounting in the book of Genesis, and each is layered with the memories of several redactors or editors. The first is the Primeval History (chapters 1-11) and the second is the Patriarchal Tales (chapters 12-50). In the primeval recounting there is no sense of the future. That was an unknown in the Israelite mind. It was lit