The Language of Genesis

Alistair McKitterick

"Despite the common tendency to read Genesis as derived from Babylonian myths or epics, scholarship has now solidly rejected this position. Firstly, if Moses is accepted as the author (somewhere between the 15^th–13^th century, depending upon your dating method), then it simply makes no sense to read Genesis as a polemic against Babylon, because Babylon only came to prominence as an empire after the 9^th century BC. It is worth reemphasizing that Moses was writing in an Egyptian (or at least, wilderness) context, as mentioned earlier, and not a Babylonian one. He was therefore hardly likely to write a polemic against a nation that posed no political or theological threat. Secondly, the linguistic evidence has conclusively shown that Genesis does not reveal any demythologizing."

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Foreword
^{Wayne Grudem}
Preface: A twenty-first century challenge
^{Phil Hills}
1. Evolution and the Church
^{Alistair Donald}
2. The language of Genesis
^{Alistair McKitterick}
3. Adam and Eve
^{Michael Reeves}
4. The fall and death
^{Greg Haslam}5. Creation, redemption and eschatology
^{David Anderson}6. The nature and character of God
^{Andrew Sibley}
7. Faith and creation
^{R. T. Kendall}
8. Towards a science worthy of creatures in imago Dei
^{Steve Fuller}
9. Interpretation of scientific evidence
A. Homology
^{Norman Nevin}B. The nature of the fossil record
^{Norman Nevin}
C. Chromosomal fusion and common ancestry
^{Geoff Barnard}
D. Information and thermodynamics
^{Andy McIntosh}
10. Does the genome provide evidence for common ancestry?
^{Geoff Barnard}11. The origin of life: scientists play dice
^{John Walton}Conclusion: Should Christians embrace evolution?
^{Phil Hills and Norman Nevin}

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Book Price: £9.99
Paperback 192 pages
ISBN 9781844744060
Published 20/11/2009

_{Edited by}
Norman C. Nevin
_{Foreword by}
Wayne Grudem

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