Yet he echoes the language of Genesis 1:27, where we are told that God “created mankind in his own image,” when he says in Hebrews 2:17 that the pre-existent Son was “made like” (ὁμοιωθῆναι) us, “fully human in every way.” The Te Deum, a Latin hymn of t...
However, what if The Crystal World was the only text found from our times, thousands of years from now like The Book of Genesis is to us. Would future humans imagine it as an allegory for something that happened to us? Would some think it described a literal event? Would the author of...
Thus, to them, the `literal' meaning of "the windows of the heavens were opened" (Genesis 7:11) would include its metaphorical usage for a massive rainfall. Rather, the `literal' meaning was contrasted with a spiritualized or mystical meaning not grounded in the text.16 That is, the ...
3. For instance, the Priestly Source, the hypothesized post-exilic document incorporated into the Old Testament canon, included not only priestly laws in the Torah concerning Israelite worship but also the Genesis 1 text. “P” linked creation and Sabbath with God’s covenant to Israel and Israe...
Inspired by Jacob’s dream of a ladder to heaven (Genesis 28:12), Scully’s stack of colored felt slabs rises more than ten meters toward the luminous dome of San Giorgio Maggiore, Palladio’s splendid Renaissance church in Venice. Amid the subdued grays and whites of the interior, the mi...
The existence of The Old Testament is not, by itself, remarkable. Many other ancient sources are just as obsessed with the end of the world. Flood narratives, such as that of Noah in Genesis, are common to almost every traditional culture on the planet. The Noah story originally comes from...
Witness the rabid attacks on academic freedom, with politicians regularly claiming that university protests against genocide are comparable to the genesis of the Nazi party. It is far more parsimonious to describe the groveling as a result of Jewish power, than to describe it as a facade to ma...
Genesis 1:2 does not mean "the wind of God was hovering over the waters," but rather "the spirit of God was hovering over the waters." In Genesis 8:1, God did not send "a spirit over the earth" but rather "a wind." Basic principles of lexical semantics – the study of word ...
Genesis 11 isn’t “about” how mankind “failed” a “test,” making it necessary for God to initiate a new “dispensation” with Abraham. It’s about how a generation which came of age after the flood rebelled against God. You may sincerely believe the textscontainthese things, but in...
Your identity has become like a flame flickering on a candle, consuming its wick in the present with its genesis consisting of the memory of when it was first lit ten minutes ago—not your birth and trajectory into the present. And oh the shock! The tasteless colorless shock of our birth...