Archive | Genesis On the Book of Genesis
"By carefully observing how the editors dealt with elements which they deemed unrepeatable (einmalig) but which they reckoned to be representative or universal in application, a basic hermeneutical direction is provided by which to broaden theological reflection beyond the Old Testament." (1992: 326) ... Is the redaction history of the text an example of typology in process?
By D. R. Driver, 8 April 2008
God’s prohibition and the humans’ transgression need not be morally obvious to be genuinely serious. The serpent’s never telling the woman to transgress but rather undermining God’s trustworthiness and truthfulness and leaving her to draw her own conclusions points to the real core of human alienation from God and the real root of disobedience...
Augustine of Hippo’s reading of Genesis 1 in City of God provides a fascinating example of pastorally sensitive theological exegesis. At a time when Christians-particularly Roman Christians-felt as if their once stable world was crumbling and receding into the twilight, Augustine put forth a message of hope.
By P. Sumpter, 20 May 2008
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