Genesis As Myth: Different Views

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord.” The German Theologian says that “God against the world and the world itself for ever dividing into opposites on either side: male and female, living and dead, good and evil, first and last.”
In a different example Edmund Leach stated that “Solomon the wise, the great king, the builder of the temple, nevertheless is a sinner in that he loved many strange woman, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, woman of the moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians and hittites.” Taken as its face value, the text of the old testament represents the relation between the various tribal groups involved as one of “binary segmentation” of the most consistent kind. The view that history in the old testament has more in com¬ mon with production than with history in an “ordinary aca¬ demic sense” is not itself at all new. Relatively orthodox Van Rad points out that “Sauls disasters seem to follow one upon another with the ...

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