King James Bible (1611): Genesis 29, Genesis 30 Rachel and Leah
I initially chose this option because
I am already fairly familiar with stories in the bible, as I studied them a lot
as a kid through various programs at my church. But, while reading through each
individual story about these women and the roles that they played in familiar
stories/parables, I found that I actually l earned several things that I either
didn’t know or hadn’t payed attention to while I was initially learning them.
Going back through these was a good refresher of how strong and influential
these women were during this time, and I am glad I got the opportunity to do
so. I also really enjoyed that the stories of the women were told in
chronological order. It made it really easy to follow lineage wise and made it
feel as connected and intertwined as I think it was intended to be! For my
notes, I chose to focus on and expand upon one/several of my favorite Bible
Women stories from each section.
From part A, the stories that I
really enjoyed re-reading were the stories of Rachel and Leah. This sequence of
events is like something out of reality TV. Can you imagine working for 7 long
years to marry the woman of your dreams, only to find out that at the end of
it, you ended up with her sister? THEN, imagine having to work another 7 years
to get to marry the woman you actually wanted to end up with! Then after that,
the woman that he had worked 14 years for could not have children, so Jacob had
to have the majority of his 12-13 children with a woman he didn’t even love,
and when Rachel was able to have kids, she died in labor! To me, this is way
worse than what even the contestants on The Bachelor/The Bachelorette/BIP have
to go through. This being said, if I did re-write this story, I would most likely
want to re-tell it from a reality TV set/dating game show to really illustrate
all of the drama that ensued while Jacob was trying to ‘get the girl’. Also,
while reading this I found that it was difficult to follow every detail of the story because of the fact that
it is written in King James style language, and this is something that I would love to change/restructure to change
the perspective and meaning of the story!
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