Re: [asa] RE: Are there guidelines for accommodational interpretation?

Hi Dick:
Dick Fischer wrote:

>Hi Bill, you wrote:
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>>>This is perhaps a very important point. Can you point to references
>>>
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>that
>document that Genesis 1-11 "had been handed down to the children of
>Israel as
>the history of their people beginning with Adam and Noah and Abraham in
>southern Mesopotamia"?<<
>
>Well, we can be pretty sure it's the history of the Semites and Arabs.
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>
Why can we be pretty sure that Genesis 1-11 is the *history* of the
Semites and Arabs rather than a foundation story expressing how Israel
sees itself in covenant relationship to God? And in what way does
Christaian faith depend on this distinction?
Don
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Received on Wed Jun 14 01:47:47 2006