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The Lexham Research Commentary is your starting point for study and research. It surveys all the relevant literature on a passage and brings the summary back to you. This guide summarizes a broad range of views on a particular passage—views you may or may not agree with, but in all cases, views you will encounter as you critically study the text. A complete introduction to each literary unit in...

The main theological theme of Gen 1–11 is its depiction of Yahweh as creator of all things. Creation is the only event from these chapters that resonates throughout the OT. Many poetic texts also refer to God’s role as creator and appear to use the idea of a single powerful creator God in a similar way to cast Yahweh as the supreme God of the universe (e.g., Job 38–41; Isa 40–66, Pss 33, 104; Prov 8:22–31). The wickedness of humanity and the problem of sin, latent and recurring themes of the OT,
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