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Rethinking Genesis

Author : Richard Briley Jr.
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Genesis written by Richard Briley Jr. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, people have wondered about the validity of the stories in Genesis. Were they myths, folklore, or misinterpretations? As science has advanced in the last two hundred years, these questions have become more prominent in the minds of skeptics and believers alike. How could there be only six days of creation? Was Adam really the first man on earth? What about this talking snake? The answers to these and other questions have been buried away in mystery and just waiting to be uncloaked. It's time to uncover the truths hidden away for thousands of years. This book answers these hard-hitting questions head-on. It's for believers of many faiths, the confused, and skeptics, anyone who has ever doubted if there really is a God. It's long overdue to embrace a paradigm shift and finally rethink Genesis.

Rethinking Genesis 1-11

Author : Gordon Wenham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498217427
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Genesis 1-11 written by Gordon Wenham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis 1-11 contains some of the best-known stories in the world. To modern Westerners they may look like no more than entertaining tales that children can enjoy, but modern adults cannot take seriously. However, when read in the context of the ancient Orient, Genesis 1-11 looks very different. It turns out to be a truly revolutionary document. In retelling the history of the ancient world, it puts a new spin on it by introducing an all-powerful, all-knowing, unique God whose greatest concern is human welfare. The God who appears in Genesis 1-11 is the God presupposed by all the Old Testament writers, indeed by the New Testament as well. The gripping tales of Genesis thus provide the theological spectacles for a sympathetic reading of the Bible. They are the gateway to a valid understanding of its message and can even help modern believers construct a worldview that integrates both the discoveries of modern science and the insights of Christian theology.

The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions

Author : Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674251857
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions written by Venkatesh Narayanamurti and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research powers innovation and technoscientific advance, but it is due for a rethink, one consistent with its deeply holistic nature, requiring deeply human nurturing. Research is a deeply human endeavor that must be nurtured to achieve its full potential. As with tending a garden, care must be taken to organize, plant, feed, and weedÑand the manner in which this nurturing is done must be consistent with the nature of what is being nurtured. In The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Jeffrey Tsao propose a new and holistic system, a rethinking of the nature and nurturing of research. They share lessons from their vast research experience in the physical sciences and engineering, as well as from perspectives drawn from the history and philosophy of science and technology, research policy and management, and the evolutionary biological, complexity, physical, and economic sciences. Narayanamurti and Tsao argue that research is a recursive, reciprocal process at many levels: between science and technology; between questions and answer finding; and between the consolidation and challenging of conventional wisdom. These fundamental aspects of the nature of research should be reflected in how it is nurtured. To that end, Narayanamurti and Tsao propose aligning organization, funding, and governance with research; embracing a culture of holistic technoscientific exploration; and instructing people with care and accountability.

Rethinking Genesis

Author : Duane A. Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857925760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Genesis written by Duane A. Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the origins of the book of Genesis. Garrett looks at the various possible sources of information that Moses drew on in putting together his account of the origins of the earth and the appearance of the history of Israel. The documentary hypothesis has always been criticised from conservative theological circles. This has tended to be in the form of outright opposition to the concept and the insistence that Moses used no other source than inspiration by the Holy Spirit. The uniqueness of Garrett's approach is that he combines conservative theology with an investigation of the possible sources of information available to Moses.

Rethinking Genesis 1–11

Author : Gordon Wenham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498217435
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking Genesis 1–11 by : Gordon Wenham

Download or read book Rethinking Genesis 1–11 written by Gordon Wenham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis 1-11 contains some of the best-known stories in the world. To modern Westerners they may look like no more than entertaining tales that children can enjoy, but modern adults cannot take seriously. However, when read in the context of the ancient Orient, Genesis 1-11 looks very different. It turns out to be a truly revolutionary document. In retelling the history of the ancient world, it puts a new spin on it by introducing an all-powerful, all-knowing, unique God whose greatest concern is human welfare. The God who appears in Genesis 1-11 is the God presupposed by all the Old Testament writers, indeed by the New Testament as well. The gripping tales of Genesis thus provide the theological spectacles for a sympathetic reading of the Bible. They are the gateway to a valid understanding of its message and can even help modern believers construct a worldview that integrates both the discoveries of modern science and the insights of Christian theology.

Rethinking Hell

Author : Christopher M. Date
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871605
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Hell written by Christopher M. Date and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.

Reading the Wife/Sister Narratives in Genesis

Author : Hwagu Kang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532635184
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Wife/Sister Narratives in Genesis written by Hwagu Kang and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Genesis introduces three similar wife/sister narratives, commonly thought to be originating from different sources because of their repetitive entries. This research explores the wife/sister narratives in Genesis (Gen 12:10-13:1, 20:1-18, and 26:1-11), and it aims to provide an understanding of the three stories as a whole by uncovering its context by textlinguistic and literary type-scene analysis. Textlinguistic analysis helps us to see how each wife/sister narrative functions in its context, while type-scene analysis emphasizes how the three narratives develop and contribute to the patriarchal narratives through their similarities and variations. Although the traditional type-scene analysis studies recurrent fixed motives in texts, this study focuses much more on literary aspects such as characterization, theme, and plot. Through this study, the three wife/sister stories will elaborate that the patriarchal narratives are not results of different authors, but the well-developed products of a single author. The three wife/sister stories work together to highlight God's faithfulness to his promises (Gen 12:1-3).

Before Abraham Was

Author : Isaac M. Kikawada
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532617690
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Before Abraham Was written by Isaac M. Kikawada and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing Genesis 1-11 with primeval histories from the ancient Near East, Kikawada and Quinn urge their readers to appreciate the ingenuity of Genesis's author: "When we think we find this author napping, we had better proceed very carefully. As with Homer or Shakespeare, when you think you have seen something wrong, there may well be something wrong with your own eyes. You are more likely to be wrong than either of them." Providing a solid case for the unity of Genesis's first eleven chapters, Kikawada and Quinn move on to show how these chapters provide a formal structure for other Old Testament histories. Destined to have lasting impact on biblical scholarship, Before Abraham Was will give scholars, clergy, and students a new appreciation of critical biblical studies and a new hypothesis for the formation of Genesis.

Genesis 1-11

Author : Kenneth Mathews
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 143367551X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Genesis 1-11 written by Kenneth Mathews and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996-01-10 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.

Genesis 1-11:26

Author : K. A. Mathews
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805401016
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Genesis 1-11:26 written by K. A. Mathews and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in an ongoing series of esteemed and popular Bible commentary volumes based on the New International Version text.

(Mis)interpreting Genesis

Author : Ben Stanhope
Publisher : Scarab Press
ISBN 13 : 9780578823690
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book (Mis)interpreting Genesis written by Ben Stanhope and published by Scarab Press. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents by chapter: What was Leviathan? Was Behemoth a Dinosaur? King James' Unicorns Making Sense of Isaiah's Flying Serpents Does Genesis 1:1 Describe the Absolute Beginning? Ancient Hebrew Heavenly Cosmology The Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Earth Eden: The Cosmic Mountain of God The Meaning of the Seven Days of Creation The Numerological Lifespans of the Patriarchs Animal Death Before the Fall Why the Holy Spirit isn't Your Bible Commentary How Popular Views of Inspiration Protect Readers from Their Bible False Artifacts, Hoaxes, and Misinterpretations: Young-Earth Creationism's Use of Dragon Legends Misuse of Flood Legends Cosmology and Traditional World Cultures Praise for (Mis)interpreting Genesis: "Stanhope's scholarly, multi-pronged critique...helped me to see the biblical narrative as holding far deeper, more significant meaning than what these Christian materialists seem bent on forcing the text to say. The text itself, in its ancient context, is far more interesting than what these eisegetes want to make it say." - John Holzmann, Co-Founder, Sonlight Curriculum Ltd.; Manager, Holzmann Family Enterprises LLC "Stanhope has dedicated many years to combatting the misinformation circulated by young-earth creationists in print and online. In this book, we see the fruit of his labors and a clear demonstration of his love for the Bible and dedication to understanding it in its historical and cultural context. The result is a monumental work.... The book offers a positive and remarkably thorough survey of the relevant biblical texts (both the ones young-earth creationists twist and the ones they conveniently ignore) as well as of relevant archaeological data.... In short, the book offers a compelling case for how to interpret the biblical material about creation that is more honest and more genuinely biblical in character than what one finds in the homeschooling and other literature promoted by the Creation Museum and other organizations like it. All those concerned not only about the state of science education in the United States, but also the decline in biblical literacy, owe Stanhope a debt of gratitude." - James F. McGrath, Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature, Butler University. Author of The Only True God: Monotheism in Early Judaism and Christianity "Stanhope relies on the most up-to-date scholarship to explain many concepts in the biblical texts that have been misunderstood by many people in today's world. This book is necessary for anyone to dive deeper into the biblical texts. I cannot recommend it enough." - Michael Jones, Founder and Director of the Inspiring Philosophy Christian research video library Ben Stanhope has served as a Garrett Fellow in the Department of Literature and Culture of Boyce College, holds a certificate in Worldview from Biola University, a B.A. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and an M.A. in Manuskriptkulturen from the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the German University of Hamburg, where he was educated in archaeometric techniques under Dead Sea Scroll scientists. His research thesis First Temple Hebrew Seals and Bullae Identifying Biblical Persons synthesizes archaeological and museum catalog data to present novel discoveries in the interpretation of Egyptian icons on biblical period papyrus seals. He has authored a work on first century Roman philosophy entitled, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus: In Contemporary English.

The Rational Bible: Deuteronomy

Author : Dennis Prager
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162157900X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Bible: Deuteronomy written by Dennis Prager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Bible, the most influential book in world history, still relevant? Why do people dismiss it as being irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Bible, will demonstrate how it remains profoundly relevant—both to the great issues of our day and to each individual life. Do you doubt the existence of God because you think believing in God is irrational? This book will cause you to reexamine your doubts. The title of this commentary is The Rational Bible because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. In Dennis Prager’s words, “If something I write is not rational, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Prager’s forty years of teaching to people of every faith and no faith at all. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world in general and to you on a personal level. His goal: to change your mind—and, as a result, to change your life.

The Redaction of Genesis

Author : Gary Rendsburg
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Redaction of Genesis written by Gary Rendsburg and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint, with new foreword, of the original 1986 hardback. Focusing his research on his own previous studies as well as studies by Cassuto, Sarna, Fishbane, and Sasson, Rendsburg clearly explains his theory that Genesis was edited/redacted around symmetrical patterns. He leads the reader through a step-by-step description of the Abraham Cycle, for instance, showing how content, duplicated narratives, and vocabulary reveal a chiastic pattern; and this pattern is repeated in other sections of the book. On the other hand, in the primeval history, the patterning is parallel, rather than chiastic. Overall, Rendsburg makes it clear that the editing of Genesis led to a systematic design, uniting the material in ways that often is overlooked.

Old Testament Theology and the Rest of God

Author : Nicholas J. Haydock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498229964
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Old Testament Theology and the Rest of God written by Nicholas J. Haydock and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rest is a largely neglected theme escaping Old Testament studies, yet is notably prominent in the text itself, arising at many of the key moments of the Old Testament--the creation, the flood, the conquest and exile of the land, the covenant with David, and the construction of the temple. Haydock explores the ways in which God's rest interacts with the direction of the narrative, noting also its role in shaping both Israel's worship and their messianic expectation. In this fascinating study, Haydock considers the importance and place of rest in the ancient Mesopotamian worldview, arguing that Israel's theology of rest played an important part in their message to the nations. This message of a sovereign and gracious God offering his rest to all peoples contrasts sharply with the nations' false perception of how "rest" was to be experienced and enjoyed.

In the Eyes of God

Author : Brian C. Howell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630870501
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book In the Eyes of God written by Brian C. Howell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Bible, divine interaction with humanity is portrayed in almost embarrassingly human terms. He sees, hears, thinks, feels, runs, rides chariots, laughs, wields weapons, gives birth, and even repents. Many of these expressions, taken at face value, seem to run afoul of much classical theology, including divine simplicity, transcendence, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and especially immutability. Traditionally, these texts have been seen as "accommodations" to human intellectual and moral limitations. That is, they were deemed as giving God a more approachable feel, but not as representing any "real" part of his character, being, or interaction with humanity. For example, references to God seeing or hearing are not deemed to represent real acts, as God already knows everything. However, this view is largely based on an Aristotelian conception of metaphors as rhetorical devices, not vehicles that carry any truth content. Since the 1970s, the understanding of how metaphors convey meaning has taken great strides. These advances can help unlock how divine action--often inadvertently flattened under theological presuppositions--functions within a text. This book aims to explore the biblical metaphor of divine sight and how current understandings of metaphorical function can enrich our reading of the text and its theology.

Adam and the Genome

Author : Scot McKnight
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493406744
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Adam and the Genome written by Scot McKnight and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genomic science indicates that humans descend not from an individual pair but from a large population. What does this mean for the basic claim of many Christians: that humans descend from Adam and Eve? Leading evangelical geneticist Dennis Venema and popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight combine their expertise to offer informed guidance and answers to questions pertaining to evolution, genomic science, and the historical Adam. Some of the questions they explore include: - Is there credible evidence for evolution? - Do we descend from a population or are we the offspring of Adam and Eve? - Does taking the Bible seriously mean rejecting recent genomic science? - How do Genesis's creation stories reflect their ancient Near Eastern context, and how did Judaism understand the Adam and Eve of Genesis? - Doesn't Paul's use of Adam in the New Testament prove that Adam was a historical individual? The authors address up-to-date genomics data with expert commentary from both genetic and theological perspectives, showing that genome research and Scripture are not irreconcilable. Foreword by Tremper Longman III and afterword by Daniel Harrell.

Glimpses of a Strange Land

Author : Cyril S. Rodd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567614573
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of a Strange Land written by Cyril S. Rodd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging book Cyril Rodd questions many of the assumptions that lie behind recent studies of Old Testament ethics. He views the 'strangeness' of the biblical world and wonders whether there is an Old Testament ethics in the modern sense of the word - finding rather that the Old Testament writers did not regard many of today's ethical dilemmas as problems at all.Dr Rodd examines all the Old Testament writings on five ethical issues: the poor, war, treatment of animals, ecology and the position of women. He considers their validity and relevance for today and discusses the extent to which they can be referred to for authority - or for inspiration and guidance..