The Creation of Heaven and Earth
Re-interpretations of Genesis I in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics
Biographical note
George H. van Kooten, Ph.D. (2001) in Theology, University of Leiden, is University Lecturer in New Testament & Early Christian Studies at the University of Groningen. He is the author of Cosmic Christology in Paul and the Pauline School (Tübingen, 2003).
Readership
Philologists, theologians and philosophers, and all those interested in the interpretation of Genesis 1 throughout different ages, the Bible, ancient philosophy, the history of the Church, and the modern debate about God and Physics.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Creation in Genesis, Jeremiah, the Ancient Near East and Early Judaism
1) The Creation of Light in Genesis 1:1-5: Remarks on the Function of Light and Darkness in the Opening Verses of the Hebrew Bible
2) Back to Chaos: The Relationship between Jeremiah 4:23-26 and Genesis 1
3) ‘Lights Serving as Signs for Festivals’ (Genesis 1:14b) in Enūma Eliš and Early Judaism
4) Creation in the Dead Sea Scrolls —
Part II Creation in Ancient Greece, Ancient Philosophy, and the Earliest Graeco-Roman Interpretations of Genesis 1
(5) Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths in Ancient Greece
(6) Cosmic Gods and Primordial Chaos in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy: The Context of Philo’s Interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and the Book of Genesis
(7) God the Creator, God the Creation: Numenius’ Interpretation of Genesis 1:2 (Frg. 30)
(8) Galen and Genesis
Part III. Creation in the Johannine, Petrine, and Pauline Literatures
(9) The ‘True Light which Enlightens Everyone’ (John 1:9): John, Genesis, the Platonic Notion of the ‘True, Noetic Light,’ and the Allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic
(10) Creation ‘Out of’ and ‘Through’ Water in 2 Peter 3:5
(11) The History of Religions Background to 1 Timothy 4:4: ‘Everything that God has Created is Good’ —
Part IV. Creation in the Middle Ages and Modernity
(12) Reading Creation: Early Medieval Views on Genesis and Plato’s Timaeus
(13) Design in Nature: Some Current Issues
(14) Design in Nature: Some Comments from the Ancient Perspective — Index of Ancient Texts
Part I. Creation in Genesis, Jeremiah, the Ancient Near East and Early Judaism
1) The Creation of Light in Genesis 1:1-5: Remarks on the Function of Light and Darkness in the Opening Verses of the Hebrew Bible
2) Back to Chaos: The Relationship between Jeremiah 4:23-26 and Genesis 1
3) ‘Lights Serving as Signs for Festivals’ (Genesis 1:14b) in Enūma Eliš and Early Judaism
4) Creation in the Dead Sea Scrolls —
Part II Creation in Ancient Greece, Ancient Philosophy, and the Earliest Graeco-Roman Interpretations of Genesis 1
(5) Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths in Ancient Greece
(6) Cosmic Gods and Primordial Chaos in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy: The Context of Philo’s Interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and the Book of Genesis
(7) God the Creator, God the Creation: Numenius’ Interpretation of Genesis 1:2 (Frg. 30)
(8) Galen and Genesis
Part III. Creation in the Johannine, Petrine, and Pauline Literatures
(9) The ‘True Light which Enlightens Everyone’ (John 1:9): John, Genesis, the Platonic Notion of the ‘True, Noetic Light,’ and the Allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic
(10) Creation ‘Out of’ and ‘Through’ Water in 2 Peter 3:5
(11) The History of Religions Background to 1 Timothy 4:4: ‘Everything that God has Created is Good’ —
Part IV. Creation in the Middle Ages and Modernity
(12) Reading Creation: Early Medieval Views on Genesis and Plato’s Timaeus
(13) Design in Nature: Some Current Issues
(14) Design in Nature: Some Comments from the Ancient Perspective — Index of Ancient Texts
€112.00$156.00
This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Solomon that was held at the University of Leuven in 2009 and discussed various aspects of this multifaced character as he appears in Jewish, early Christian, and Islamic tradition.
€105.00$144.00
The “Day of Atonement” in Leviticus 16 had a formative influence on Judaism and Christianity. The essays in this volume form a representative cross section of the history of reception of Leviticus 16 and the tradition of the Yom ha-Kippurim.
€175.00$227.00
Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham's relations with Hagar. This volume sketches the significance of this narrative in the three traditions.
€133.00$172.00
The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.
€133.00$172.00
In this book the ambiguous reception is traced which the pagan prophet Balaam received in Judaism, early Christianity and Islam.
€110.00$142.00
This collection of essays examines how stories from the biblical narrative of Israel in the Wilderness (Exodus 16-Deuteronomy 34) were interpreted by later Jewish and Christian writers (ca. 400 BCE-500 CE) as they sought to speak to their own circumstances.
€100.00$130.00
In this book the varied and important reception is traced which the story of the revelation of YHWH’s name to Moses received in Judaism, early Christianity, and the pagan Graeco-Roman world.
€89.00$115.00
This volume presents an overview of Jewish, Christian and Islamic receptions of the Genesis 18-19 story of Sodom. The subjects range from inner-biblical reception, Dead Sea Scrolls, the Martyrdom of Pionius, and Koran commentaries, to Peter Damian and Marcel Proust.
€100.00$130.00
Fall of the Angels focuses on a biblical tradition whose significance has been recognised, elaborated and explored in literature and art outside the Bible. Its extensive influence on religion and culture during the last two millenia is reflected in the wide variety of interpretations of this ...
- 1 of 2
- ››
No additional information