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The Lost World of Adam and Eve
- Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
For centuries, the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature, and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous. And even for many thinking Christians today who want to take seriously the authority of Scripture, insisting on a "literal" understanding of Genesis 2-3 looks painfully like a "tear here" strip between faith and science.
How can Christians of good faith move forward? Who were the historical Adam and Eve? What if we've been reading Genesis - and its claims regarding material origins - wrong? In what cultural context was this couple, this garden, this tree, this serpent portrayed?
Following his groundbreaking Lost World of Genesis One, John Walton explores the ancient Near Eastern context of Genesis 2-3, creating space for a faithful reading of Scripture along with full engagement with science for a new way forward in the human origins debate. As a bonus, an illuminating excursus by N. T. Wright places Adam in the implied narrative of Paul's theology.
The Lost World of Adam and Eve is a must-listen book for anyone seeking to understand this foundational text historically, and theologically, and wondering how to view it alongside contemporary understandings of human origins.
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- Carrick Johnson
- 20-06-23
The Lost World of Adam and Eve
This a fantastic book well written and very informative it’s a book I shall read again as all cannot be taken in in one reading
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- Anonymous User
- 22-12-23
A profound rethinking of Genesis
Clearly read and deeply researched unpacking of Genesis that allows for both Biblical and Scientific interpretations to be accepted. Excellent read.
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- Glenn Myers
- 02-04-19
thought-provoking and enjoyable
A fresh look at Genesis 1-3 in the light of recent near-Eastern scholarship. Most helpful in making room for exegesis that is faithful to the text and that doesn't have to dismember modern science. I would not be surprised if Walton's books set the direction for thinking about Genesis for years to come.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-02-20
Great book but annoying reader
The book is an great scholarly work, eye-opening for a better understanding of scripture and the position of the Bible related to the beginning.
The reader reads like a robot. I struggled a bit to keep listening for the sake of a great content and author.
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- Kelly Quint
- 23-04-21
Clear, crisp, authoritative yet rather halting delivery
Am unsure whether it’s just me, but I find Paul Boener’s narration fine, just less than musical enough in this reading.
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- Darius-Daniel Toma
- 19-03-24
The inside ideas are well documented
The downside of this book is the fact that is a little bit hard ti grasp; the language is academic one; its hard to listen to it, harder to understand it.
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- Chris Casey
- 06-10-20
Plato may have enjoyed this
This is a wholly unconvincing piece of work. All along I felt I was dancing with a hidden partner who suddenly jerked me from one side to another in an arbitrary way as themes departed from a coherent direction on the basis of sometimes conflicting ideas (e.g. did God actually- at some point, have anything to do with material reality, or is He and the ordering of creation merely abstract or spiritual?). It is as if there was always one eye on an unarticulated issue in the background. John tell us what you want to argue fir or against, then why and then offer us the benefit of your studies that posit answers. The number of times I said out loud 'give me reasons why - where's the substance of your argument '. I feel disappointed after some early interest. The postulation of Adam and,Eve as priests sounds like a hermeutical error- it was only with Cain and Abel that any signs of Cultic behaviour starts entering their world. The seemingly random choices of material from the ancient world lacked qualification, verification or explanation. you gotta build a book on more than affirmations.
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