The Creation of Heaven and Earth: Re-interpretation of Genesis I in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics
This
volume discusses the narrative of the creation of heaven, earth and
light in the first chapter of Genesis and focuses extensively on its
later interpretations in different cultural and religious contexts.
After an introductory paper on the text of Genesis itself, the authors
deal with receptions of this theme in the Prophet Jeremiah, Early
Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. They comment on creation accounts in
the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece and ancient philosophy,
reconstructing the earliest known receptions of Genesis 1 in ancient
philosophers like Numenius and Galen. They trace its influence in the
Johannine, Petrine and Pauline traditions of Early Christianity, and
follow it right through the Middle Ages up till the present-day
discussion of design in Nature.
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