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Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Volume 15 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Theological journals are a tremendous resource for biblical studies. However, anyone who has searched for copies of theological journals knows that they are difficult to find and impossible to buy. Even if you are fortunate enough to have a library of journals in print form, they take up lots of shelf space. With the print editions, finding a topic or Scripture reference can be difficult. The...

The creation of humans should be [so the argument goes] analogical [with the origin of the other animal kinds as a whole in Genesis 1]: therefore he creates the human beings as a whole, all humanity. Some support for this view may come from Mesopotamian parallels: in important examples the gods do not create individual humans, but the human race. And this is a good argument, but it is not fully coercive. Perhaps the Hebrew writer had reasons that persuaded him just at this point not to continue with
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