In this episode I present the final installment of my series on Genesis 1 and what I think is the best handling of the text - the Polemical Literary Framework. This is part 5 of the series so I recommend listening back to the previous episodes before jumping into this one. 

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Sources:

John Walton

• “Reading Genesis Through Ancient Eyes” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-6ekUmQFE
• Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology (Eisenbrauns: 2011)
• The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (IVP, 2009)
• Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament (Baker: 2006)
• Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context: A Survey of parallels between biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989)“Creation in Genesis 1:1 - 2:3 and the Ancient Near East: Order out of Disorder after Chaoskampf,” Calvin Theological Journal 43 (2008): 48-63.
• “Interpreting the Bible as an Ancient Near Eastern Document” in Israel-Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention? Archaeology, Ancient Civilizations, and the Bible, ed. D. Block (Nashville: Broadman/Holman, 2008) 298-327.

 Futato, Mark

• (Spring 1998)."Because it Had Rained: A Study of Genesis 2:5–7 With Implications for Genesis 2:4–25 and Genesis 1:1–2:3" (PDF). Westminster Theological Journal. Gordon. 60 (1): 1–21

 Irons, Lee

• (January 2000)."The Framework Interpretation: An Exegetical Summary". Ordained Servant. Upper register. 9 (1): 7–11

Kline, Meredith

• (1996)."Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony". Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith (48): 2–15

 Miller and Soden

• In the Beginning… We Misunderstand. (Kregel: 2012)

Currid, John

• Against the Gods (Crossway: 2013)
• “The Nature of Polemical Thought and Writing,” https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/polemic.html

 Niehaus, Jeffrey

• Ancient Near Eastern Themes in Biblical Theology (Kregel: 2008)