Chapters 1–11 of Genesis are like a poetic prologue to the early history of ... and explains their religious significance and their place in the Bible as a whole. Introductory sections on the sources ...
The Cambridge Companion to Genesis explores the first book of the Bible, the book that serves as the foundation for the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures. Recognizing its unique position in world history, ...
Conventional learned commentaries on the first book of the Bible often concentrate on the reconstructed history of the traditions ... Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another ...
Of the Flood, she writes: “Turbulence is introduced into the Genesis Creation by human beings ... How should we interpret the bible? How is the language meaningful? If it speaks of the Fall ...
Many Christians would accept that the central message of both Genesis 1 and 2, whether seen as one ... Christians believe that as the Bible comes directly from God, everything in it must be ...
1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential ...
Some Christians believe that the Bible accounts and stories ... The authors of the biblical books had limited knowledge of science and the world, so the Genesis account was their way of trying ...
His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and ... The five books of Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy ...