The Lost World of Adam and Eve
Subtitle: Genesis 2-3 and the human origins debate
By: John H. Walton ; with a contribution by N.T. Wright
Publisher: IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press; IVP Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780830824618
Table of contents: title: Proposition 1: Genesis is an ancient document; title: Proposition 2: In the ancient world and the Old Testament, creating focuses on establishing order by assigning roles and functions; title: Proposition 3: Genesis 1 is an account of the functional origins, not material origins; title: Proposition 4: In Genesis 1, God orders the cosmos as sacred space; title: Proposition 5: When God establishes functional order, it is "good"; title: Proposition 6: 'ādām is used in Genesis 1-5 in a variety of ways; title: 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); title: Proposition 8: "Forming from dust" and "building from rib" are archetypal claims and not claims of material origins; title: 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; title: Proposition 10: The New Testament is more interested in Adam and Eve as archetypes than as biological progenitors; title: Proposition 11: Though some of the biblical interest in Adam and Eve is archetypal, they are real people who existed in a real past; title: Proposition 12: Adam is assigned as priest in sacred space, with Eve to help; title: 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; title: Proposition 14: The serpent would have been viewed as a chaos creature from the non-ordered realm, promoting disorder; title: Proposition 15: Adam and Eve chose to make themselves the center of order and source of wisdom, therby admitting disorder into the cosmos; title: Proposition 16: We currently live in a world with non-order, order and disorder; title: Proposition 17: All people are subject to sin and death because of the disorder in the world, not because of genetics; title: Proposition 18: Jesus is the keystone of God's plan to resolve disorder and perfect order; title: 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; title: Proposition 20: It is not essential that all people descended from Adam and Eve; title: Proposition 21: Humans could be viewed as distinct creatures and a special creation of God even if there was material continuity