num_pages: 240
description: Seven specialists in Old Testament theology and interpretation come together to offer a variety of needed biblical perspectives and insights on how to interpret the first two chapters of Genesis correctly. Evangelical scholars college and seminary professors (and their students) and pastors will benefit from this title. This is the only book of its kind that involves a critical and comparative assessment of the early Genesis narratives by Old Testament scholars actually working in the field.From the Introduction by Victor P. Hamilton: Even in the wider evangelical portion of conservative Protestantism there are emerging divergent perspectives on reading Gen 1-2. To some this is salutary. To others it is a slippery slope. The essays to follow in this volume all by highly esteemed and well-published OT evangelical scholars will demonstrate this hermeneutical diversity . . .A community of believers tries by the guidance of the Holy Spirit to come to an understanding of a scriptural position or passage by thinking together talking and dialoguing together praying together and by agreeing to disagree agreeably if the case need be. The title of the Bryan Institute symposium which produced this collection of essays was 'Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation.' To which I say let the conversation continue.Chapters include:RICHARD E. AVERBECK--Genesis 1 and 2 as Observational Cosmogony and Cosmology: A Literary Inter-textual and Contextual ReadingTODD BEALL--Reading Genesis 1 and 2: A Literal ApproachC. JOHN COLLINS--Reading Genesis 1-2 with the Grain: Analogical DaysTREMPER LONGMAN III--What Genesis 1-2 Teaches (and What It Doesn't)JOHN H. WALTON--Reading Genesis One as Ancient CosmologyKENNETH J. TURNER--Teaching Genesis 1 at a Christian CollegeJUD DAVIS -- Unresolved Questions: Evangelicals and Genesis 1-2A response section follows each chapter in which each author has the opportunity to reply to the viewpoint presented. It is truly a conversational format.
language: English
title: Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation
publisher: Hendrickson Academic