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Genesis 1:1 - 2:4
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 | Reading the Text:
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NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
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The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc. |
| The Blue Letter Bible.
KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries. |
| The World
Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons. |
| Bereshit
1: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS. |
| Bereshit
2: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS. |
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Navigating the Bible: Text/Rabbinic commentary
and Divrei Torah. |
| Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit.
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| Enuma elish, the Babylonian Creation Epos |
| Hesiod's Theogony |
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The Creation of the
World,
Philo
Judaeus of Alexandria (20 BCE - 50 CE). |
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Chapter XXXIII
of The First Epistle to the Corinthians,
Clement of Rome (ca.
96). |
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Chapter V and
Chapter VI,
Chapter XV
of the
Epistle of Barnabas.
(ca. 130) |
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Chapter LXII,
Dialogue With Trypho,
Justin
Martyr. (c 160) |
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I.XXIV.1,
I.XXX.6,
II.II.5 ff,
III.XXIII.2,
IV.Preface.4,
IV.XI.1,
IV.XX.1,
IV.XXXII.1,
V.XV.4,
V.XXVIII.3, Adversus
Haereses,
Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
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Chapter
III, On Baptism,
Tertullian
(c. 198) |
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Chapter X, Exhortation
to the Greeks,
Clement of
Alexandria (c 200) |
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I.12,
II.10, Paedagogus,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
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II.12,
II.23,
III.4,
III.16,
IV.26,
V.5,
V.14,
VI.7,
VI.16, Stromata,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
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Chapter I,
Chapter III,
Chapter XII,
Chapter XIX,
Chapter XX,
Chapter XXII,
Chapter XXIII,
Chapter XXV,
Chapter XXVI,
Chapter XXIX,
Chapter XXX,
Chapter XXXII,
Against Hermogenes,
Tertullian (c.
205) |
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Chapter V, On
The Veiling of Virgins,
Tertullian (c.
205) |
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I.2, To
His Wife,
Tertullian
(c. 206) |
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I.29, Against
Marcion,
Tertullian
(c. 207) |
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II.3,
II.4, Against
Marcion,
Tertullian
(c. 208) |
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Exegetical
Fragments,
Hippolytus
(c 210). |
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Chapter XXVII,
On the Soul,
Tertullian (c.
210) |
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IV.26, Against
Marcion,
Tertullian
(c. 210) |
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Chapter
VI, Exhortation to Chastity, Tertullian (c. 210) |
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Chapter XIV, On
Idolatry,
Tertullian
(c. 211) |
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Chapter V,
Chapter VI,
Chapter XLV,
On the Resurrection of the Flesh,
Tertullian
(c. 211) |
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V.6,
V.8,
V.11, Against
Marcion,
Tertullian
(c. 212) |
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Chapter
V,
Chapter
VII,
Chapter
XII, Against Praxeas,
Tertullian
(c. 213) |
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Chapter
VII, On Monogamy,
Tertullian
(c. 215) |
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Chapter
XVI, On Modesty,
Tertullian
(c. 217) |
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I.VII.4,
II.VIII.1,
II.IX.1,
III.VI.1, 8,
First Principles (De Principiis),
Origen. (c.225) |
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V.IV,
V.XXI,
V.XXII,
VI.IX,
VI.XXVII,
VII.X,
VII.XVI,
VIII.II, The
Refutation of all Heresies (Philosophumena),
Hippolytus of Rome.
(c. 225) |
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On the
Hexameron,
Hippolytus of Rome.
(c.225) |
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II.17,
II.23, Commentary
on the Gospel of John,
Origen.
(c.228) |
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IV.Summary.33,
First Principles (De Principiis),
Origen /
Rufinus (c.230) |
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IV.XXX,
V.XXXVII,
VI.XLIX,
VI.LX,
VI.LXI,
VIII.XXXIV,
Against Celsus,
Origen
(c. 246) |
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X.11,
X.19,
XII.2,
XIII.6,
XIV.16, Commentary
on the Gospel of Matthew,
Origen. (c.247) |
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On the
Dress of Virgins,
Cyprian
of Carthage (c. 249) |
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II.33,
III.46, Against the Heathen,
Athanasius of
Alexandria, c. 318. |
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I.2, Ecclesiastical
History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320). |
| St.
Basil the Great
(330-379):
Nine Homilies on
the Hexaemeron. |
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"The True Doctrine," On the Incarnation of the Word,
Athanasius of Alexandria, c. 318. |
| From the Geneva Notes. |
| God Alone Created the World,
Thomas Boston (Puritan, c 1700) |
| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
Chapter 2. |
| From
Wesley's Notes. |
| God's Approbation of His
Works (Gen 1:31). Sermon by John Wesley. |
| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). |
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| Contemporary References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Genesis 1:1-24a, Trinity A,
Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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Genesis 1:1 - 2:4a (Trinity), Studies on Old Testament texts from Series
A, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
 | "This 7th day in Genesis 2 is
really a time beyond our time, a time toward which we look, when all
creation will recognise the authority of the one who creates it, and
rest in his care." |
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Creation Story: Old Testament Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
| "Light is a source of life and
growth. You can’t have life without light." |
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"When
I Was a Boy," Blogging toward Sunday,
Nanette Sawyer, Theolog: The Blog of The Christian Century, 2008.
| "The seed of wholeness is inside us in the form
of the image of God. And that seed that will blossom mightily if we
water it with love and community and companionship." |
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Genesis 1:1-5 (Epiphany 1), Studies on Old Testament texts from Series B, Ralph W.
Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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"The
Poetry of Creation,"
The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey
with Jesus Foundation, 2008. |
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"B'reshit - Deciding Whether to..." Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom
Center.
| "I can only comfort myself with the
thought that even God didn't know if the plan would work, but moved
forward into the darkness on faith." |
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"B'reshit - How Do We Begin Again?" Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom
Center.
| "Our goal is to affirm AND CELEBRATE
distinctions. GOOD that women and men are so alike and yet different; that
Jews and Palestinians are so alike, and yet different; that human and
humus are intertwined, yet distinct." |
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"Stewardship of Creation," study guide, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at)
"Moral Landscape of Creation," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2001. |
| "The Creation of
the Heavens and the Earth," from the Biblical
Studies Foundation.
| "We have often failed to apply the
first chapter of Genesis one in any way that is relevant to our own spiritual
lives." |
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| Parshas
Bereishis, Divrei Torah from The Project Genesis Torah Study. Index to
numerous Orthodox articles and studies on Genesis 1:1 - 6:8. |
| Genesis Bible Study:
Creation 1, God and Boundaries, Dennis
Bratcher, Christian Resource Institute.
| "This aspect of divisions and boundaries between them will play an
important role in this story." |
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Genesis 1:1-5, Proper 1B,
Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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Genesis 1:1-5,
Baptism of Jesus, Background, Insights from Literary Structure,
Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson,
Uniting Church in Australia. |
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| Articles & Background:
| If you can only visit one site
in this long list, make it: "The Life of Adam and Eve: The
Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity," a fine comprehensive site on Genesis
1-3 by Gary A. Anderson of The University of Virginia, and Michael E. Stone of The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. |
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"The Meaning of Vocation," A.J. Conyers, (other resources at)
"Vocation," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2004.
| "'Vocation' is
distorted by two disastrous misunderstandings: a secularized idea of
'career' and a monastic concept of the religious life." |
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"Playing God in
the Movies: The Preposterous History of Genesis 1:26-27," Jan Willem
vanHenten, SBL Forum, 2005. |
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"Sabbath, a 'Little Jubilee,'" Richard H. Lowery, (other resources
at)
"Sabbath," Christian Reflection, 2006.
| "Sabbath may be the key to our survival,
prosperity, and sanity." |
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"Praying with the Rhythms of Grace," Judy Henderson Prather, (other
resources at)
"Sabbath," Christian Reflection, 2006.
| "At the heart of the creation story in Genesis 1,
and in God's life-giving gift of sabbath, are patterns of ebb and
flow, and of repetition. These rhythms of grace recommend practicees
of prayer that will help us to reclaim sabbath keeping." |
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"Ecobible:
The Bible and Ecojustice," Walter Wink. Theology Today,
1993.
| "So why not just throw out the
Bible, and Christianity along with it? Because it is not the
commandments, but the tenor, the thrust, the spirit of Jesus that
drives us toward God's future.... The Bible is not a repository of
politically correct opinions, but an ongoing struggle to overcome
domination right in our own tradition, in our own Scripture, in our
own homes. Just so, it is only in our time of ecodisaster that we
are driven to think about ecojustice." |
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| "The
Ambiguity of Matter," Huston Smith, Cross Currents, 1998.
| "Finding ourselves the 'kings' and 'queens' of creation, we should adopt
toward the rest of nature a stance that is basically custodial in resembling the care that
good rulers exercise toward their subjects. To live up to that trust, we will have to
reorder society." |
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| "Consciousness
and Reality: Our Entry into Creation," James N. Studer, Cross Currents.
| "God does not "deign to create us from on high" and then merely
to associate with us, albeit closely. We are God's love affair, and our immortality is
divine poetry." |
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| "What
is Creation? Rereading Genesis 1 and 2,"
Michael Welker, University of Munster. Theology Today, 1991.
| "God saw; God evaluated; God
named, God separated; God brings to the human being; God allows to
be named; God reacts to the needy situation of loneliness and
helplessness of the human being who is not yet differentiated into
man and woman. According to the classical creation texts, all of
these activities and reactivities are part of the complex event
'creation.' All these reactive activities, which relate to that
which is already "produced, " are requisite in order to
bring the process of the creation of heaven and earth to a close.
God sees, names, separates, and reacts in a differentiated way to
the situation and behavior of the human being. What a world lies
between this important characteristic of divine creating in the
classical creation texts and the concept of unconditional production
and causation!" |
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"Adam, the Hebrew for 'Human, Humanity: A Response to James Barr," David
J.A. Clines, 2000. |
| "The
Creator and the Computer," article specially prepared for the web by Dr. David R.
Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University.
| "How does speech, which is
immaterial, create the world, which is material? And what is "speech" to a God
who is utterly transcendent?" |
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| "The
Lost Chaos of Creation," Catherine Keller, The Living Pulpit. |
| "The
Lilith Myth," From Hebrew Myths by Robert Graves and Raphael
Patai.
| "Adam and Lilith never found peace together, for when he wished to lie with
her, she took offence at the recumbent position he demanded. 'Why must I lie beneath you?'
she asked. 'I also was made from dust, and am therefore your equal'" |
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| "Eve
and Pandora Contrasted," William E. Phipps, Theology Today,
1988.
| "Contrary to prevailing
opinion, there is reason to hold that the myths of Eve and Pandora
are quite dissimilar in original meaning. Our lack of awareness of
this difference has been due to interpreters throughout Western
civilization who have mingled these two stories together." |
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| "In
God's Image," program highlights, discussion & reflection questions and more
from the Bill Moyers PBS series Genesis: A
Living Conversation.
| "'What do I think when I
hear the phrase -- 'bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh?' This is the first love song a
man ever sang to a woman.' -- Reverend Renita Weems." |
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| Radical
Shabbat: Free Time, Free People. Rabbi Arthur Waskow. "Living
the Word," in Sojourners Online, May/June 2000.
| "Honorable work and restful renewal are both
aspects of responsibility." |
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| "Sabbath
Chic," Monique Parsons at BeliefNet,
August 2000.
| "People of many faiths are
finding the upside to downtime." |
|
| The Talk Origins Archive:
Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
| "Talk.origins
is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical
origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy,
but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology,
catastrophism, cosmology and theology. This archive is a collection of articles and
essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary
reason for this archive's existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses
to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) and frequently rebutted assertions that
appear in talk.origins." |
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| "The
Genesis Factor," a discussion of the variants of Genesis found in the Gnostic Nag
Hammadi texts. By Stephan A. Hoeller, from Quest, September 1997.
| "...many people, even those who do
not literally believe it, still return to the archaic story of creation as a frame of
reference when faced with challenges to their traditional values." |
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| "God and Evolution: An
Exchange." Howard J. VanTill and Phillip E. Johnson in First Things 34
(June/July 1993).
| "The real danger is not from the metaphysical statements that come
explicitly labelled as such, but from the implicit metaphysics that generates seemingly
objective facts and theories." |
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| "Untangling
Evolution," by Stephen M. Barr, in First Things 78 (December 1997).
| "...if we can set aside the historical effect of the theory of
evolution—and set aside the theological meanderings of those who want to use the
theory as a stick with which to beat religion—we can find that nothing in the theory
itself creates intellectual difficulties for Christian or Jewish belief." |
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| Adam and Eve,
from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the
Bible by Ronald L. Ecker. |
| Even the
Angels are Jealous: A legend about the creation of man and the fate of the angels who
objected, at Jewish Heritage On-Line Magazine.
| "When God in His wisdom resolved
to create man, He asked counsel of all around him before he proceeded to execute His
purpose – an example to man, be he ever so great and distinguished, not to scorn the
advice of the humble and lowly." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Abrahams, Samuel P., "Toward a
Balanced Perspective of Creation," JOurnal of the Interdenominational
Theological Center, 1995.
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| Akinade, Akintunde E., "An African
Reflection on Eco-Justice," The Living Pulpit, 2000. (See entire
issue of The Living Pulpit, 2000:
Creation.)
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| Anderson, Gary, "The Interpretation of Genesis 1:1 in
the Targums," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1990.
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| Boer, Roland,
"The Fantasy of Genesis 1-3," Biblical Interpretation, 2006.
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| Bozung, Douglas C., "An Evaluation of the Biosphere Model of Genesis 1," Bibliotheca
Sacra, 2005.
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| Boyce, Richard N., "Genesis 1:1-5, Between Text and
Sermon," Interpretation, 1996.
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| Claassens, Juliana M., "And the Moon
Spoke Up: Genesis 1 and Feminist Theology," Review and Expositor,
2006.
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| Collins, C. John, "How Old Is the Earth?
Anthropomorphic Days in Genesis 1:1-2:3," Presbyterion, 1994.
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| Ellis, Robert R., "Creation,
Vocation, Crisis and Rest: A Creational Model for Spirituality,"
Review & Expositor, 2006.
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| Eslinger, Lyle,
"The Enigmatic Plurals Like 'One of Us' (Genesis 1:26, 3:22, and 11:7) in
Hyperchronic Perspective," Vetus Testamentum, 2006.
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| Firmage, Edwin, "Genesis 1 and the Priestly Agenda,"
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1999.
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| Fox, Matthew, "Celebrating Creation
as Blessing," The Living Pulpit, 2000. (See entire issue of
The Living Pulpit, 2000:
Creation.)
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| Graves, Mike,
"On Having a Word from God - Genesis 1:1-5; John 1:1-18," Journal for
Preachers, 2003.
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| Greidanus, Sidney,
"Preaching Christ from the Creation Narrative," Bibliotheca Sacra,
2004.
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