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Reading Genesis 1-2 An Evangelical Conversation

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ISBN-10: 1598568884

ISBN-13: 9781598568882

Edition: 2013

Authors: J. Daryl Charles, Richard Averbeck, Todd S. Beall, C. John Collins, Jud Davis

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Today's evangelical community faces a multitude of questions about the creation of the cosmos and the beginning of human history, and we look to the Bible for answers. But what do we do with the stories that the book of Genesis presents to us? Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation brings together the voices of five prominent evangelical scholars who take on the 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. Reviewing and responding to each other's work, they write to honor their fellow thinkers even while…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, LLC
Publication date: 6/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

J. Daryl Charles is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana.

C. John Collins (PhD, University of Liverpool) is Professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary. Chair of the Old Testament translation committee for the English Standard Version, he is the author of Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary ; The God of Miracles: An Exegetical Examination of God ' s Action in the World ; Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? and Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? Who They Were and Why You Should Care.

Foreword
Contributing Authors
Publisher�s Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Five Views on Interpreting Genesis 1-2
A Literary Day, Inter-Textual, and Contextual Reading of Genesis 1-2
Four Responses to Chapter One
Reading Genesis 1-2: A Literal Approach
Four Responses to Chapter Two
Reading Genesis 1-2 with the Grain: Analogical Days
Four Responses to Chapter Three
What Genesis 1-2 Teaches (and What It Doesn't)
Four Responses to Chapter Four
Reading Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology
Four Responses to Chapter Five
Reading Genesis Now
Teaching Genesis 1 at a Christian College
Unresolved Major Questions: Evangelicals and Genesis 1-2
Index of Ancient Sources