TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dimattei,Steven
TI  - Genesis 1 and the creationism debate: being honest to the text, its author, and his beliefs 
SN  - 9781498231336
AV  - BS651 .D56 2016eb
U1  - 231.7/65 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Eugene, OR
PB  - Wipf & Stock Publishers
KW  - Bible
KW  - Genesis, I
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Creation
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Creationism
KW  - Créationnisme
KW  - creationism (religious ideology)
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Genesis' two creation accounts -- The seven-day creation account and the priestly writer -- Creation and sacred time
N2  - Modern readers often assume that Genesis 1 depicts the creation of the earth and sky as we know it. Yet in an appeal for textual honesty, Steven DiMattei shows that such beliefs are more representative of modern views about this ancient text than the actual claims and beliefs of its author. Through a culturally contextualized and objective reading of the texts of Genesis 1 and 2, this study not only introduces readers to the textual data that convincingly demonstrate that Genesis'two creation accounts were penned by different authors who held contradictory views and beliefs about the origin of the world and of man and woman, but also establishes on textual grounds that what the author of Genesis 1 portrayed God creating was the world as its author and culture perceived and experienced it--not the objective world, but a subjective world, subject to the culturally conditioned views and beliefs of its author. In the end, this book clearly illustrates that the Bible's ancient texts do in fact represent the beliefs and worldviews of ancient peoples and cultures--not those of God, not those of later readers, and especially not those of modern-day Creationists
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