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

What do you mean by history?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: "'Bill Hamilton'" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>; "'Don Nield'"
<d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>; "'Dick Fischer'" <dickfischer@verizon.net>
Cc: "'ASA'" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:09 PM
Subject: RE: [asa] RE: Are there guidelines for accommodational
interpretation?

> Well, if your read the Bereshith you certainly get the idea that they
> believed it was history. Indeed, they said so. Note the word history:
>
> The unity of God is at once set before us in the history of creation,
> where
> we are told he, not they, created.
>
> Then you find things like:
>
> "Michael and Gabriel acted as "best men" at the nuptials of Adam and Eve.
> God joined them in wedlock, and pronounced the marriage-benediction on
> them."
>
> And the Midrash Tanhuma says:
>
> "As one who finishes the building of his house proclaims that day a
> holiday,
> and consecrates the building, so God, having finished creation in the six
> days, proclaimed the seventh day a holy day and sanctified it."
>
> There seems to be an assumption that the Bible was history. They did
> think
> it also contained secret mysteries but history was the first and formost
> view. I have never run into anything that indicates he ancients thought
> it
> didn't teach history. (Of course, some might take that as proof of
> accommodation).
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
>> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Hamilton
>> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:57 AM
>> To: Don Nield; Dick Fischer
>> Cc: ASA
>> Subject: Re: [asa] RE: Are there guidelines for
>> accommodational interpretation?
>>
>>
>> Dick
>>
>> I was hoping in yhour response to my qquery that you'd cite
>> some rabbinic commentary that asserted that Genesis 1-11 is
>> Jewish history. Maybe such a thing doesn't exist, but it
>> doesn't hurt to ask.
>
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