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| Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| Creation and ANE Creation stories. |
Thanks Scot McKnight for this quote from the third chapter of Peter Enns book, "The Evolution of Adam" in which Enns deals with the Biblical Creation story along side of other ANE creation stories and what effect they should have on our views of the Biblical narrative.
"Perhaps a better way of thinking about the issue is to introduce the phrase “genre calibration.” Placing Genesis side by side with the primordial tales of other ancient cultures helps us gain a clearer understanding of the nature of Genesis and thus what we as contemporary readers have a right to expect from Genesis. Such comparisons have made it quite clear that Israel’s creation stories are not prepared to answer the kinds of questions that occupy modern scientific or even historical studies. Genesis is an ancient text designed to address ancient issues within the scope of ancient ways of understanding origins. (pp. 35-36)"
Could not agree more. |
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