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The purpose of studying the Old Testament is to understand God and his redemptive work more fully. However, this goal is complicated by the fact that it was transmitted through a very different language and culture from our own. A Survey of the Old Testament provides an indispensable guide for undergraduate students and other readers by exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues...

human habitation. Already in this we can identify an intentional contrast to Mesopotamian theology developing. In the ancient world, something was believed to exist by virtue of having a defined role in an ordered system. Consequently, creation was seen primarily as determining roles and functions for everything in the cosmos. In Mesopotamia this means that creation texts were not as interested, for example, in the material origins of the moon. Instead, the creation of the moon involved its being
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