By George H Kooten
This quantity discusses the narrative of the production of heaven, earth and light-weight within the first bankruptcy of Genesis and focuses widely on its later interpretations in numerous cultural and spiritual contexts. After an introductory paper at the textual content of Genesis itself, the authors take care of receptions of this topic within the Prophet Jeremiah, Early Judaism, and the lifeless Sea Scrolls. They touch upon construction money owed within the historical close to East, old Greece and historical philosophy, reconstructing the earliest recognized receptions of Genesis 1 in historical philosophers like Numenius and Galen. They hint its impact within the Johannine. Petrine and Pauline traditions of Early Christianity, and keep on with it all the way through the center a while up until the present-day dialogue of layout in Nature.
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Light is the image of the salvation by YHWH: ‘I will lead the blind by a road they do not know, by paths they have not known. I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground’ (Isa 42:16). Already from an early time, the light-darkness oppositions are not only used in the context of creation. Light and darkness become synonyms for welfare, salvation, good and misery, misfortune, evil. It is already used in this way—though located in the cosmic setting of the day of YHWH—in Amos 5:18, 20: Alas for you who desire the day of YHWH!
Widengren, Religionsphänomenologie, Berlin 1969, 151, the idea of a dramatic reenactment of the En¯uma eliˇs has proved to be persistent up to present times. , for criticisms: K. A. ), Congress Volume Leuven 1989, Leiden 1991, 331– 344; B. Sommer’s review of Baltzer’s commentary on Deutero-Isaiah in Review of Biblical Literature 02/2003. ‘lights serving as signs for festivals’ 35 A ritual meaning of the cosmological materials of Ee 5 is less apparent, but nonetheless some connections between cosmology and ritual have been observed.
Van ruiten with the enemy from the north (Jer 4:5–10:25). The disclosed chaos evokes unmistakably the creation story of the book of Genesis. I will first deal with the structure of Jer 4:23–26 and its place in the literary context, especially its relation with Jer 4:27–28. I will then go into the intertextual relationship of this passage with Genesis 1. 1. The structure of Jer 4:23–28 The text of Jer 4:23–28 reads, in translation, as follows: Jeremiah 4:23–28 (RSV, with slight modifications) 23 a b 24 a b 25 a b 26 a b c d I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void;2 and to the heavens, and they had no light.
