This week’s post is up on BioLogos. In this series of posts I am drawing out some of the rich Old Testament imagery concerning creation. In this post, I look at the plagues as a divine battle scene. The point: Israel’s very non-sciecntific notions of the creation of the cosmos are important for Biblical Theology.
John Walton has written a response to Vern Poythress’s review of The Lost World of Genesis One. There are some important hermeneutical and theological issues involved that should be of interest to many. Check it out.
I just posted a brief essay on the comic battle theme in the Old Testament. I hope you have a chance to visit BioLogos and see what we are up to there. Also, I will be doing some fairly regular posting there, which means that my activity here will be even less than it has [...]
With my permission as well as that of the Bulletin for Biblical Research, Art Boulet has posted my published response to Greg Beale’s The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism.
The first of several video interviews featuring Tom Wright is now up at BioLogos. In this video, Wright discusses myth and history in Genesis 1-3. Among other things, he observes the tensions are largely American issues that are entangled with other social/political issues, and that a focus on historical issues misses the more important theological [...]
Here’s another video from my interview with Zondervan Academic:
I will be speaking on “Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Blueprint for Genesis” at Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, at the McInnis Auditorium on Tuesday, April 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Student Activities Board.
I’ve just posted a review of The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age for the Earth by Davis Young and Ralph Stearly. Read it here
I realize I have not posted for a while. I’ve been busy watching the Yankees limp to the end of the season and their Stadium to non-existence. It’s been a rough summer. I left off in the middle of a series of posts on responses to some general criticisms of I&I. I will continue that [...]
Genesis and Evangelicals A free lecture sponsored by The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science and the Messiah College Honors Program Featured speaker: Dr. Peter Enns Evangelicalism has tended to have an uneasy relationship with biblical scholarship of the last several generations. In this lecture, Prof. Enns will look at one specific example of [...]
