Interpreting the Genesis Creation

'Let us encode man in our own image - male and female shall we encode them.'

Genesis contain the most sublime and awesome descriptions of cosmic and primordial events: creation, human origins, evil, Noah’s genocidal flood, & more. How would you interpret these texts if you knew they were poetry, metaphor, symbolism, mythic story?

Biblical scholarship has been busy with the Book of Genesis for at least a couple of centuries. With additional insight from text analysis, archeology, philology, comparative religions and ancient near-eastern studies, today's scholars have pieced together important evidence about the type of literature that Genesis represents.

Drawing from the work of eminent Hebrew and Old Testament scholar Dr Bruce Waltke, this session will shed some light on how to interpret the first eleven chapters of Genesis. We will then have a better hermeneutical context for hearing from DNA specialist Dennis Venema next week.

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