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Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation: A Discursive Commentary on Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new commentary on Genesis 1–11, the so-called “primeval history” in which the account of creation is given. Blenkinsopp argues that, from a biblical point of view, creation cannot be restricted to a single event, nor to two versions of an event, as depicted in Genesis 1–3. Rather, it must take in the whole period of creation arranged in the sequence of creation,...

Cross-linkage places the created entities in the environment appropriate for them. The heavenly luminaries correspond to the creation of light; aquatic and winged creatures to the creation of the vault of the sky which separates the upper rain-producing source from the oceanic abyss below; and land creatures including human beings correspond to the emergence of dry land. Vegetation is then designated as food for all creatures including humans. Since this first creation was a kingdom of peace and
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