Reading Genesis One With the Ancient Eye

Speaker(s): John Walton
Date: June 25, 2008
Length: 91:47
Product ID: RGDL3819G

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This evening public lecture given at Regent College in 2008 explores the ramifications of reading the first chapter of Genesis from the understanding of function over being.

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John Walton is Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. Previously he served as a professor at Moody Bible Institute for twenty years. He is author of many books, including The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology, The Lost World of Genesis 1: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, and Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament.

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