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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bryce: [QB] We actually covered this in class today. My statement on this will shock everyone. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG] I should start by saying that today scholars rely heavily on archeology for their research. According to even the most level headed, conservative scholars today, Genesis 1-11 (!) is most likely a story used to tell the Hebrew people how life came to be. I'll give a few class notes and then shut up. Clues to why we think this: 1. The word Adam comes from a Hebrew word meaning 'from the ground'. Eve means 'life-giver' in Hebrew. It can be said that possibly these two Biblical characters did not actually exist. 2. When Adam's sons reach maturity we have a populous Earth that has descriptions that match the New Stone Age and the Bronze Age. Even though they lived a long time back then we did not advance this quickly. This is all there in Chapter 4. The phrase my prof used was "history is telescoped" All this suggests a "representational/thematic" presentation rather than HISTORY or SCIENCE in our modern, western sense. The Hebrew people had to be told things in ways they could understand. Genesis was written for them! We are trying to translate a work from an ancient language and culture totally different than our own. Words like (and this shocked me a lot) heavens, fermanent, kind, and day had different meanings back then. If the original writer was here now he/she would have no clue as to our definitions of these worlds and our concept of them. Genesis 1-11 could have been told this way because that would have been the only way the Hebrews could understand creation. Two thing I want to say though is that the Old testament does not in any way conflict with anything in the New Testament. To use an old Christian phrase, it can be said "God met them where they were at". Oh... I need to also say Genesis does not fit any desciptions of a near eastern creation "Myth". It is an "Anti-Myth". All magic, cyclinical notions, and consorts of God (and other things) are not present. Genesis (at the very least) told the Hebrews that the creation stories of their neighbors were wrong. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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