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Too often the doctrine of creation has been made to serve limited or pointless ends, like the well-worn arguments between science and faith over the question of human and cosmic origins. Given this history, some might be tempted to ignore the theology of creation, thinking it has nothing new or substantive to say. They would be wrong. In this stimulating volume, Ian A. McFarland shows that at...

Testament provide a clear solution to the ambiguity of the Genesis text. On the one hand, there are passages (e.g., Job 26:12–13; Pss. 74:12–14; 89:10–11; Isa. 51:9) that seem to echo the Enuma Elish, with its story of God engaged in a primordial battle with a sea serpent. On the other, texts like Isaiah 45:7 and Psalm 148:4–6 suggest that even the watery powers of chaos were made by God.9 The fact is that the work of creation is simply not the subject of much focused reflection in the Old Testament
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