God, Sky & Land / Bull, Brian & Guy, Fritz / (PB/2011-2011/B+/USED)

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"... a stunning success, forcing us to rethink our assumptions [and] listen with greater sensitivity to what Bible writers originally intended to communicate." -- Douglas R. Clark, professor of Biblical studies and archaeology, La Sierra University In God, Sky & Land, theologian Fritz Guy and scientist Brian Bull take us back more than three thousand years and re-create Genesis 1 as it was heard by its original audience. With their unique retro-translation, based explicitly on the Hebrew text and dubbed the Original Hearers' Version, they lead us into the world of Genesis 1 that the post-Exodus Hebrews knew. Guy and Bull explore the explanatory concepts of the ancients and the ones we have added in the millenniums since. Most useful to the science/theology debate, the authors show how unhelpful it is to place modern scientific demands on an ancient text. The authors affirm that Genesis 1 is God's truth but does not and could not include all of the truth we have been given since then. They steer us away from trying to inject Genesis 1 into scientific debate and back to the rock-solid truth it reveals about God. FRITZ GUY, PhD is a research professor of philosophical theology at La Sierra University. Besides teaching at three universities, he has served as a church pastor, college dean, and university president. He is the author of 80 popular and scholarly articles and the book Thinking Theologically (1999). BRIAN BULL, MD is professor and chair of the Loma Linda University Medical School department of Pathology and Human Anatomy. He served as editor-in-chief of Blood Cells, an international hematology journal (1984-1993), and as LLU Medical School dean (1994-2003). He is the author of 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and monographs.

CONTENTS

Foreword

The Apparent Disconnect: Genesis Versus Science

Translating "Backwards": The Challenge of Retro-Translation

Why it is What it is: Some Explanations and Comments About our Retro-Translation

"Sky," "Land," and "Vault": Mental Pictures Then Versus Now

"The Vault of the Sky": Critical for Creation

Biblical Inspiration: Community, Messengers, and Canon

Explanatory Concepts: "God," "Human," "Nature," "Chance"

"The Sky and the Land" Versus "The Universe": How Perceived Reality Has Changed Through Time

"Without Form or Function": What Existed Before Creation

Putting Scientific Demands on an Ancient Text: Fitting in 13.7 Billion Years

The Six Creation Days: A Prologue to God's Rest

What Genesis 1 Really Says

Bibliography

Index

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