Noah S Flood Literal Or Figurative

Author : Ronald Conte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491017473

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Noah's Flood: Literal Or Figurative? by Ronald Conte Pdf

This book considers two topics, one more important than the other. The first and narrower topic is how we should interpret the Biblical story of the Flood of Noah. The second broader and more important topic is how we should understand any passage of the Bible that seems to be contradicted by science or reason. This book examines the Flood story and its interpretation in order to shed light on the proper interpretation and understanding of other Biblical stories, especially those that pertain to history or science.Four different scientific theories are reviewed, each proposing a different ancient cataclysmic event as the historical basis for the story of Noah and for the flood myths found in many cultures. This book also considers whether the best interpretation of the Noah story is literal, figurative, or a combination of both. The last chapter then examines several other Bible passages that might seem to be in conflict with science or reason, and suggests an interpretation that harmonizes faith with reason, theology with science.

Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300076487

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Noah's Flood by Norman Cohn Pdf

An exploration of the origins, development, and varying interpretations of the ancient story of Noah's flood, and an assessment of its impact on the history of ideas. It includes accounts of the scholars and theologians who have endorsed or rejected the flood story.

Author : Tremper Longman III,John H. Walton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830887828

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The Lost World of the Flood by Tremper Longman III,John H. Walton Pdf

"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters" (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV). In modern times the Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for answers to scientific, apologetic, and historical questions. It is a text that has called forth "flood geology," fueled searches for remnants of the ark on Mount Ararat, and inspired a full-size replica of Noah's ark in a theme park. Some claim that the very veracity of Scripture hinges on a particular reading of the flood narrative. But do we understand what we are reading? Longman and Walton urge us to ask what the biblical author might have been saying to his ancient audience. Our quest to rediscover the biblical flood requires that we set aside our own cultural and interpretive assumptions and visit the distant world of the ancient Near East. Responsible interpretation calls for the patient examination of the text within its ancient context of language, literature, and thought. And as we return from that lost world to our own, we will need to ask whether geological science supports the notion of flood geology. To read Longman and Walton is to put our feet on firmer interpretive ground. Without attempting to answer all of our questions, they lift the fog of modernity and allow the sunlight to reveal the true contours of the text. As with other books in the Lost World series, The Lost World of the Flood is an informative and enlightening journey toward a more responsible reading of a timeless biblical narrative. The books in the Lost World Series follow the pattern set by Bible scholar John H. Walton, bringing a fresh, close reading of the Hebrew text and knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature to an accessible discussion of the biblical topic at hand using a series of logic-based propositions.

Author : J. David Pleins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199733637

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When the Great Abyss Opened by J. David Pleins Pdf

The story of Noah's flood is one of the best-loved and most often retold biblical tales, the inspiration for numerous children's books and toys, novels, and even films. Whether as allusion, archetype, or literal presence--the American landscape is peppered with "recreations" of the ark--the story of Noah's animals and the ark resonates throughout American culture and the world.While most think of Noah's ark as a dramatic myth, others are consumed by the quest for geological and archeological proof that the flood really occurred. Persistent rumors of a large vessel on the mountain of Ararat in Turkey, for instance, have led many pilgrims and explorers over the centuries to visit that fabled peak. Recent finds suggest that there may have been a catastrophic flood on the shores of the Black Sea some 7,600 years ago. Is this then the reality behind the ancient tale of Noah? More to the point, why does it matter?What does the story of the Flood mean to us and why does it so stir the collective imagination? When the Great Abyss Opened examines the history of our attempts to understand the Flood, from medieval Jewish and Christian speculation about the physical details of the ark to contemporary efforts to link it to scientific findings. Unraveling the mythical dimensions of the parallel Mesopotamian flood stories and their deeper social and psychological significance, J. David Pleins also considers the story's positive uses in theology and moral instruction. Noah's tale, however, has also been invoked as a means of justifying exclusion, racism, and anti-homosexual views. Pro-slavery advocates, for example, used the story of Noah's Curse on Ham's son Canaan to rationalize the enslavement of Africans.Throughout this expansive and lively book, Pleins sheds new light on our continuing attempts to understand this ancient primal myth. Noah's Flood, he contends, offers a unique case study that illuminates the timeless and timely question of how fact and faith relate.

Author : Francis Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847396150

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The Language of God by Francis Collins Pdf

Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?

Author : R. J. Boutelle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798890861412

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The Race for America by R. J. Boutelle Pdf

As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, and Martin Delany engaged this cultural mythology to theorize and practice Black internationalism. He uncovers how their strategies for challenging Manifest Destiny's white nationalist ideology and expansionist political agenda constituted a form of disidentification—a deconstructing and reassembling of this discourse that marshals Black experiences as racialized subjects to imagine novel geopolitical mythologies and projects to compete with Manifest Destiny. Employing Black internationalist, hemispheric, and diasporic frameworks to examine the emigrationist and solidarity projects that African Americans proposed as alternatives to Manifest Destiny, Boutelle attends to sites integral to US aspirations of hemispheric dominion: Liberia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Cuba. In doing so, Boutelle offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.

Author : Jeffrey J. Cohen,Julian Yates
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452969343

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Noah's Arkive by Jeffrey J. Cohen,Julian Yates Pdf

A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and an uncomplicated vision of survival. Noah’s ark, however, will forever be haunted by what it leaves to the rising waters so that the world can begin again. In Noah’s Arkive, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates examine the long history of imagining endurance against climate catastrophe—as well as alternative ways of creating refuge. They trace how the elements of the flood narrative were elaborated in medieval and early modern art, text, and music, and now shape writing and thinking during the current age of anthropogenic climate change. Arguing that the biblical ark may well be the worst possible exemplar of human behavior, the chapters draw on a range of sources, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and Ovid’s tale of Deucalion and Pyrrah, to speculative fiction, climate fiction, and stories and art dwelling with environmental catastrophe. Noah’s Arkive uncovers the startling afterlife of the Genesis narrative written from the perspective of Noah’s wife and family, the animals on the ark, and those excluded and so left behind to die. This book of recovered stories speaks eloquently to the ethical and political burdens of living through the Anthropocene. Following a climate change narrative across the millennia, Noah’s Arkive surveys the long history of dwelling with the consequences of choosing only a few to survive in order to start the world over. It is an intriguing meditation on how the story of the ark can frame how we think about environmental catastrophe and refuge, conservation and exclusion, offering hope for a better future by heeding what we know from the past.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : J. Patrick Lewis,Jack Pearl Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004054987

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A Study of the Interpretation of Noah and the Flood in Jewish and Christian Literature by J. Patrick Lewis,Jack Pearl Lewis Pdf

Author : Charles A. Weisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:429938244

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Facts and Fictions Regarding Noah's Flood by Charles A. Weisman Pdf

Author : Ken Ham,Bodie Hodge
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614587026

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Glass House by Ken Ham,Bodie Hodge Pdf

Evolution as an idea is considered a rock-solid truth among secular scientists, but when you begin looking at the evidence and asking simple questions, you find their conclusions to be just fragile assumptions, unproven myth, and outright misconceptions – like a glass house built on shifting sands. Discover the pervasive influences of the atheistic religion of Darwinian evolution Learn what science is and how science is actually devastating to evolution Explore how evolution developed from unproven science to a popular and cultural worldview Now a powerful team of credentialed scientists, researchers, and Biblical apologists take on the pillars of evolution, and the truths they reveal decimate Darwin’s beliefs using a Biblical and logical approach to evidence.

Author : Sylvia Penny
Publisher : Open Bible Trust
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783644915

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Noah's Flood by Sylvia Penny Pdf

The great deluge is recorded in the early chapters of Genesis, but was it a universal flood or a local flood? Were all the mountains covered, or just those in that area? And what about the animals? Were these representatives of all animals from the entire world, or just those who were local? Or did the ark take only domestic animals? There is evidence throughout the world of great flooding, but did it all take place at the same time? And what other evidence is there for a flood? Why have so many cultures a flood narrative as part of their ancient history? In her usual thorough and fair manner, Sylvia Penny presents the evidence that supports, and questions, these two main views. All Christians will profit and learn from this book.

Author : Ronald Hendel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691196831

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The Book of Genesis by Ronald Hendel Pdf

During its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity, and it plays a central role in contemporary debates about science, politics, and human rights. The authors provide a panoramic history of this iconic book, exploring its impact on Western religion, philosophy, literature, art, and more.

Author : Jack P. Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004676985

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A Study of the Interpretation of Noah and the Flood in Jewish and Christian Literature by Jack P. Lewis Pdf

Author : David R. Montgomery
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393083965

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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood by David R. Montgomery Pdf

How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood. In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists—discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism. Steno, the grandfather of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology’s founding principles based on his observations of northern Italian landscapes. Centuries later, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of a global flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer’s eye and a refreshing approach to both faith and science, Montgomery takes readers on a journey across landscapes and cultures. In the process we discover the illusive nature of truth, whether viewed through the lens of science or religion, and how it changed through history and continues changing, even today.