Genesis Interpretation

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the difference between literal sense of scripture and reading scripture literally
2. Apply this knowledge to Genesis
3. Explain why Genesis is called a symbolic story

Resources Include:
- Fully editable PowerPoint lesson
- Genesis Accounts - double-sided sheet with Genesis 1:1 - 2:3 and Genesis 2:4 - 2:25. The sheet includes a key to encourage pupils to reflect on the authors' intentions & differences between the accounts.
- Genesis Accounts Differentiated - extracts from Genesis 1&2, with images.
- Information Sheet - outlines the difference between the literal sense and literally interpreting a text

Religious Education Directory Links:
U7.1.3 - Explain the difference between the literal and ‘literalist’ sense of scripture (see The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, p. 82), by describing the literary form and the two different authorial voices in the first two chapters of Genesis.

Scheme of Work: Year 7 Creation & Covenant - Lesson 4 _______________________________________________________________________________

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