A perennial interest for me over the past several years has been understanding the early chapters of Genesis. This reached its height while I was in my last couple of years at Dallas and I was able to take Hebrew III and IV, as well as a Ph.D seminar on ancient Near East literature. Couple all this my reading of John Walton, and you get this blog series:
- Thoughts on Genesis
- Genesis: Backgrounds (A)
- Genesis: Backgrounds (B)
- Genesis 1: Introduction
- Genesis 1: Structure
- Genesis 1: Days 1-3
- Genesis 1: Days 4-6
- Genesis 1: Concluding Thoughts
- Genesis 2: Introduction
For reasons I don’t quite remember (probably busyness), I obviously didn’t finish Genesis 2. Other concerns came to the forefront as I wrapped up at Dallas, but you can tell by this string of reviews, it was still a subject of interest:
- Mapping The Origins Debate: 6 Models of The Beginning of Everything
- The Mysterious Epigenome
- Redeeming Science
- Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?
- The Evolution of Adam (read the important preliminaries first)
- Genesis and Christian Theology
- Return Of The Chaos Monster
- In The Beginning We Misunderstood: Interpreting Genesis 1 in Its Original Context
- Four Views on The Historical Adam
- The Adam Quest
- The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority
- Death Before The Fall: Biblical Literalism and The Problem of Animal Suffering (expanded version)
Now, as you can see from the stack of books pictured above, I’ve got quite a few books on the topic to work through. The top 2 are for actual reviews and the bottom three are books I picked up at TGC because they were good deals.
I’m not particularly sure what this series, if it even becomes that, will look like. Needless to say I’ll probably be posting thoughts on my reading over the summer. But beyond that, I’m not sure if it will all take systematic shape. I’d like to pick back up with Genesis 2, but I might need to go back and reshape my thoughts on the first chapter in the process. My views, to pardon the pun, haven’t evolved drastically since I wrote the Genesis series and then taught high school biology for a year. But, there are many questions I still have and am working through so I thought it’d be best to do that on here. If there’s something particular you’d like to see me wrestle through, let me know!
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i would love your thoughts on historic creationism of John Sailhammer
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I just started reading “Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin.” The first chapter (“Adam and Eve in the Old Testament,” by C. John Collins) was a particularly fun read because Collins had some specific points of disagreement with Peter Enns’ “The Evolution of Adam,” Daniel Harlow’s essays, James Barr, and others, particularly in his numerous footnotes.