http://www.peteenns.com/what-is-genesis-about-the-big-idea-that-cleared-it-up-for-me/

1. Pete Enns is a good Biblical scholar. He’s worth reading. I’ve appreciated much of his work. 

2. I like the article because it shines light on Genesis. That’s helpful. 

3. This kind of article always whispers in my ear “the critique of primogeniture (according to Enns here) is an accident of history. The authors wanted to privilege Judah over the other tribes therefore it’s just another example of our “God” is simply the randomness or manipulation of experience or history. There’s no there-there. (Read Scott Adams on reality). 

4. Or, God in fact uses history and apparent randomness to in fact reveal himself and his will even through editors with a specific, even self-serving agenda. The joke is finally on them in the dance of post-modernity: “See, they wrote with a self-serving agenda. They (the authors) must have been either duped into imagining God was with them or cynically manipulating a gullible religious body by their con. God double duped them by actually revealing himself and his passion for the anti-imperial small even through their duplicity. See Joseph to his brothers: “you meant it for evil, but God worked it for good”.