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Right from the Start: Calling Evangelical Leadership to Faith in Genesis 1–2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Right from the Start, Dave Fouts takes us on a careful journey through the first two chapters of Genesis, calling us to faith in God’s power and wisdom displayed in the beginning of the authoritative Word. Emphasizing that how you start determines how you finish, Fouts explains how a right understanding of the beginning of the Bible is an integral part of forming sound theology. Fouts calls...

the nations of the Semitic world. Figures of speech seem to be rather common in narratives in both Scripture and ancient Near-Eastern (ANE) literature. Thus, of all the known literature of the ancient Near East, Genesis 1:1–2:3 best fits the genre historical narrative. The passage fits no other known genre. Recently, some are claiming for Genesis 1:1–2:3 what essentially amounts to a separate category of genre that has no ANE parallel.64 In his 1991 Crux
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