By Gary Rendsburg
Paperback reprint, with new foreword, of the unique 1986 hardback.
Focusing his learn on his personal prior reports in addition to reviews through Cassuto, Sarna, Fishbane, and Sasson, Rendsburg in actual fact explains his conception that Genesis was once edited/redacted round symmetrical styles. He leads the reader via a step by step description of the Abraham Cycle, for example, exhibiting how content material, duplicated narratives, and vocabulary display a chiastic development; and this development is repeated in different sections of the ebook. however, within the primeval background, the patterning is parallel, instead of chiastic. total, Rendsburg makes it transparent that the enhancing of Genesis ended in a scientific layout, uniting the cloth in ways in which frequently is overlooked.
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If we look merely at the form of this document, its place at the beginning of the book of Genesis is sufficient to warrant the expectation that it will give us history, and not fiction, or human speculation. , a fact of objective truth and reality. The grand simplicity of the account is in perfect harmony with the fact. “The whole narrative is sober, definite, clear, and concrete. The historical events described contain a rich treasury of speculative thoughts and poetical glory; but they themselves are free from the influence of human invention and human philosophizing” (Delitzsch).
In this regularity of composition, according to a settled plan, the book of Genesis may clearly be seen to be the careful production of one single author, who looked at the historical development of the human race in the light of divine revelation, and thus exhibited it as a complete and well arranged introduction to the history of the Old Testament kingdom of God. Genesis 1 Introduction The Creation of the World - Genesis 1:1-2:3 The account of the creation, its commencement, progress, and completion, bears the marks, both in form and substance, of a historical document in which it is intended that we should accept as actual truth, not only the assertion that God created the heavens, and the earth, and all that lives and moves in the world, but also the description of the creation itself in all its several stages.
Side by side with the law of expansion from the unity of a family to the plurality of nations, there was carried on from the very first a law of separation between the ungodly and those that feared God, for the purpose of preparing and preserving a holy seed for the rescue and salvation of the whole human race. This double law is the organic principle which lies at the root of all the separations, connections, and dispositions which constitute the history of the book of Genesis. In accordance with the law of reproduction, which prevails in the preservation and increase of the human race, the genealogies show the historical bounds within which the persons and events that marked the various epochs are confined; whilst the law of selection determines the arrangement and subdivision of such historical materials as are employed.