RT Article
T1 Genesis and the Challenges of a 21st-Century Reading
JF Pro ecclesia
VO 29
IS 4
SP 387
OP 406
A1 Arnold, Bill T. 1955-
LA English
PB Sage Publishing
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1742024041
AB What does Genesis 1-3 demand of 21st-century readers? The article focuses on the ancient Near Eastern location of the text, proposing that we ask only as much of the text as that location will allow. Relying on an older discussion of ancient thought as “empirico-logical” reasoning, as distinct from formal logic developed later by Greek philosophy, this article will explore the genre and worldview of Genesis as a means of establishing what is and is not reasonable in our reading of Adam in the opening chapters of Genesis. The article explores the implications of reading the text as an etiologically driven, mythopoeic account of an “historical” event.
K1 Ancient Near Eastern cosmology/cosmogony
K1 Creation
K1 Etiology
K1 Genesis 1-3
K1 Genre
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 History
K1 mytho-history
K1 Mythology
DO 10.1177/1063851220952327