Re: [asa] Original Sin and Genesis 3

Josephus wrote in the late 1st century, separated from Moses by 1400 years and from Abraham by some two millenia.  In the intervening time, the Greeks conquered the known world east of Greece and brought the worldview behind the Hellenistic culture.  Then, the Romans conquered and brought another wind of culture change.  By this time, Babylon has been ruled first by the Medo Persian empire and then by the Greeks, and the millenia of contact with the outside world had no doubt changed their worldview, too.  So Josephus can't be counted as authoritative on early Genesis.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net>
To: ASA <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:25 am
Subject: RE: [asa] Original Sin and Genesis 3

Hi Phil, you wrote:

>These filler ideas are all based on the belief that Moses originally intended the text to be read as literal history.  I'm moving toward the idea that this was not Moses' intent.<

What would you suppose were Josephus’ intentions who corroborated Moses?

Dick Fischer

Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

www.genesisproclaimed.org

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