https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Creation ... 498231322/
Some of you remember my "Young Earth Creation put to rest" thread with Stahrwe a few years back, some of you may not. I've been reading through Steven DiMattei's online articles which have been put together to form this new book. He and I are both members at www.exchristian.net and have been discussing his book. I felt like a thread ought to be opened on the topic here at booktalk as well. I'll be leaving Steven a link to this thread and will invite him to discuss the book here as well. Many interesting points come up which go beyond what I had known or considered previous to his research.Modern readers often assume that Genesis 1 depicts the creation of the earth and sky as we know it. Yet in an appeal for textual honesty, Steven DiMattei shows that such beliefs are more representative of modern views about this ancient text than the actual claims and beliefs of its author. Through a culturally contextualized and objective reading of the texts of Genesis 1 and 2, this study not only introduces readers to the textual data that convincingly demonstrate that Genesis' two creation accounts were penned by different authors who held contradictory views and beliefs about the origin of the world and of man and woman, but also establishes on textual grounds that what the author of Genesis 1 portrayed God creating was the world as its author and culture perceived and experienced it--not the objective world, but a subjective world, subject to the culturally conditioned views and beliefs of its author. In the end, this book clearly illustrates that the Bible's ancient texts do in fact represent the beliefs and worldviews of ancient peoples and cultures--not those of God, not those of later readers, and especially not those of modern-day Creationists.