From creation to new creation : Old Testament perspectives /
Bernhard W. Anderson.
- Minneapolis : Fortress, c1994.
- xvi, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
- Overtures to biblical theology .
Collection of essays originally published in various sources, 1975-1994.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The earth is the Lord's -- Biblical perspectives on the doctrine of creation -- The priestly creation story -- The Flood story in context -- Mythopoeic and theological dimensions of biblical creation faith -- Theology and science : cosmic dimensions of the creation account in Genesis -- Human dominion over nature -- Relation between the human and nonhuman creation in the biblical primeval history -- Creation and the Noachic covenant -- The tower of Babel -- "The Lord has created something new" : a stylistic study of Jeremiah 31:15-22 -- The slaying of the fleeing, twisting serpent : Isaiah 27:1 in context -- Creation faith in its setting of worship -- Creation and new creation.
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