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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Adam, (Biblical figure); Eve, (Biblical figure); Adam, (Biblical figure); Eve, (Biblical figure); Adam, (Biblical figure); Eve, (Biblical figure) |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John H Walton |
ISBN: | 9780830824618 0830824618 |
OCLC Number: | 890068263 |
Awards: | Commended for Christianity Today Book Award (Biblical Studies) 2016 |
Description: | 255 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Proposition 1: Genesis is an ancient document -- Proposition 2: In the ancient world and the Old Testament, creating focuses on establishing order by assigning roles and functions -- Proposition 3: Genesis 1 is an account of the functional origins, not material origins -- Proposition 4: In Genesis 1, God orders the cosmos as sacred space -- Proposition 5: When God establishes functional order, it is "good" -- Proposition 6: 'ādām is used in Genesis 1-5 in a variety of ways -- Proposition 7: The second creation account (Gen 2:4-24) can be viewed as a sequel rather than as a recapitulation of day six in the first account (Gen 1:1-2:3) -- Proposition 8: "Forming from dust" and "building from rib" are archetypal claims and not claims of material origins -- Proposition 9: Forming of humans in ancient Near Eastern accounts is archetypal, so it would not be unusual for Israelites to think in those terms -- Proposition 10: The New Testament is more interested in Adam and Eve as archetypes than as biological progenitors -- Proposition 11: Though some of the biblical interest in Adam and Eve is archetypal, they are real people who existed in a real past -- Proposition 12: Adam is assigned as priest in sacred space, with Eve to help -- Proposition 13: The garden is an ancient Near Eastern motif for sacred space, and the trees are related to God as the source of life and wisdom -- Proposition 14: The serpent would have been viewed as a chaos creature from the non-ordered realm, promoting disorder -- Proposition 15: Adam and Eve chose to make themselves the center of order and source of wisdom, thereby admitting disorder into the cosmos -- Proposition 16: We currently live in a world with non-order, order and disorder -- Proposition 17: All people are subject to sin and death because of the disorder in the world, not because of genetics -- Proposition 18: Jesus is the keystone of God's plan to resolve disorder and perfect order -- Proposition 19: Paul's use of Adam is more interested in the effect of sin on the cosmos than in the effect of sin on humanity and has nothing to say about human origins : including an excursus on Paul's use of Adam / by N.T. Wright -- Proposition 20: It is not essential that all people descended from Adam and Eve -- Proposition 21: Humans could be viewed as distinct creatures and a special creation of God even if there was material continuity. |
Responsibility: | John H. Walton ; with a contribution by N.T. Wright. |
Abstract:
What if reading Genesis 2-3 in its ancient Near Eastern context shows that the creation account makes no claims regarding Adam and Eve's material origins? John Walton's groundbreaking insights into this text create space for a faithful reading of Scripture along with full engagement with science, creating a new way forward in the human origins debate.
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