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Origins of Genesis 1–3 studies the claims of the biblical text in these first chapters of Genesis. Focusing closely on the ancient Near Eastern context of the text, professor Walton helps students see how Genesis 1–3 would have been understood by its original audience and leads students to examine the function of the creation story and the issues between science and the Bible.

Before we move on we should note an important passage in Zech 12:1, which pulls some of these issues together. There it says, “The LORD who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth”—by the way, there you can see that we’re dealing with a creation context. It goes on to say, “and who forms the human spirit within a person”—and here we find that forming is not something that’s material, because the human spirit is not material. So we see both in biblical usage and in biblical
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