Reading Genesis 1-2
eBook - ePub

Reading Genesis 1-2

An Evangelical Conversation

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eBook - ePub

Reading Genesis 1-2

An Evangelical Conversation

About this book

Today's evangelical community faces a multitude of questions about the creation of the cosmos and the beginning of human history and-quite naturally-we look to the Bible for answers about the origins and meaning of human history. But what are we to do with the stories in the first two chapters of Genesis?

Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation brings together the voices of five prominent evangelical scholars who take on difficult interpretive questions that arise from reading the Bible's first two chapters. Richard Averbeck, Todd Beall, John Collins, Tremper Longman, and John Walton offer their perspectives in a point-counterpoint style.

Drawing on a wealth of theological, linguistic, and historical expertise, this collection is characterized by a close attention to the biblical text and a mutual respect that often sorely lacks in the discussion of origins in the modern evangelical world.

Contributors:
  • Richard Averbeck
  • Todd Beall
  • C. John Collins
  • Jud Davis
  • Victor P. Hamilton
  • Tremper Longman III
  • Kenneth J. Turner
  • John Walton

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Foreword
  3. Contributing Authors
  4. Publisher’s Preface
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction
  7. Part One: Five Views on Interpreting Genesis 1–2
  8. 1. A Literary Day, Inter-Textual, and Contextual Reading of Genesis 1–2
  9. 2. Reading Genesis 1–2: A Literal Approach
  10. 3. Reading Genesis 1–2 with the Grain: Analogical Days
  11. 4. What Genesis 1–2 Teaches (and What It Doesn’t)
  12. 5. Reading Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology
  13. Part Two: Reading Genesis Now
  14. 6. Teaching Genesis 1 at a Christian College
  15. 7. Unresolved Major Questions: Evangelicals and Genesis 1–2