Hello Dick,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Fischer [mailto:dickfischer@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:30 PM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Adam and Eve
> There has been no method of apology that regards the first eleven
> chapters of Genesis as having historical integrity, and at the same
> time has respect for modern science. The only method that has worked
> to date has been to assign early Genesis to some condescending
> category such as allegory, poetry, tradition, mythology, fable, etc.
> What I have tried to show is that early Genesis has been
> misunderstood as a Hebrew rendition of the beginnings of mankind.
> What I believe it to be is a Hebrew rendition of the history of the
> Jewish race - not the human race.
>
> So I believe Genesis 2:4-11 is a fairly accurate historical narrative
> of the Adamites-Semites who lived in southern Mesopotamia from about
> 7,000 to about 4,000 years ago.
Are you familiar with John Sailhamer's book Genesis Unbound, which seem to
argue a similar point about interpretation of the Genesis account?
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