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Author: Noel K. Weeks Created: 16 December 2020
This article was republished with permission in the Fall 2020 edition of
Bible and Spade magazine. Errata from the print version has been corrected in this electronic version that can be downloaded
Do the biblical authors interpret the Creation and flood accounts as allegorical or literal?
Can we really claim to hold to the full authority of Scripture while simultaneously embracing sources and interpretive theories from outside of the Bible and based in human authority?
Does biblical cosmology reflect ideas borrowed from the ancient Greeks regarding a flat earth and tiered heavens? Or, have modern critics read back into the ANE period and the Bible their own cosmological conceptions and then used them to criticize the Bible?