- Is Genesis 1 poetic?
- Three models of interpretation
- We haven’t always insisted that Gen 1 is literal 6*24 hours
- OEC and a brief history of the Gap explanation of Gen 1:1-2
- How did the original readers understand Gen 1:1?
- Did the earth “become” without form and void? Gen 1v2
- Do the Hebrew words for create (Bara, Asah) support a gap?
- Passages raised to support OEC don’t work
- Conclusion on the gap theory (OEC)
- Gen 1:2 – Darkness was upon the face of the deep
- Gen 1:4 – Dividing light and darkness
- Genesis 1:6 and the Firmament
- Seeley’s paper on the Firmament
- Traditional Jewish understandings (and a familiar story)
- The Firmament and the Anchor Yale Dictionary
- A response to Allfree and Davies on the firmament
- Genesis 1 and the sun/moon as dividing seasons
- Genesis 1 and the creation of the great lights
- Gen 1 and producing after its kind
- In the image and likeness of God Gen 1:26-27
- The image and likeness of God in the New Testament
- “Very Good” – what does phrase this mean?