0107 In chapter three, Biblical scholar Kenton Sparks offers another term for the genre of Gen 1-11: ancient historiography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because it is ancient, Gen 1-11 cannot yield dependable history or modern science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because it is historiography, history is graphed out as images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are those images fictional?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
0108 Sparks has no interest in discussing the relationship between Gen 1-11 and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps, that stance will change once the hypothesis of the first singularity<\/em> lands on his desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0109 It may be that the evangelicals who teach Gen 1-11 as scientifically and historically accurate<\/em> may be on target, but in ways they never imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, Gen 1-11 is a histriography, a map of the histrionics of the Ubaid developing and suffering from unconstrained social complexity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0110 Histrionics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forgive me the pun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just look at our Zeitgeist today. The Age of Ideas<\/em> ends. The Age of Triadic Relations<\/em> begins. Histrionics fills the air. I mean… the air-waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, in addition to a historiography,<\/em> Gen 1-11 is a histriography<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 0107 In chapter three, Biblical scholar Kenton Sparks offers another term for the genre of Gen 1-11: ancient historiography. Because it is ancient, Gen 1-11 cannot yield dependable history or modern science. Because it is historiography, history is graphed out as images. Are those images fictional? 0108 Sparks has no interest in discussing the relationship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,142,156,143,155],"tags":[64,145,151,29,45,150,147,148,153,154,146,149,111,152,50,44],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-an-archaeology-of-the-fall","category-first-singularity","category-genesis-1-11","category-romans-512-19","category-stories-of-adam-and-eve","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-charles-halton","tag-eden","tag-first-singularity","tag-genesis","tag-genre","tag-gordon-wenham","tag-history","tag-interpretation","tag-james-hoffmeier","tag-kenton-sparks","tag-mesopotamia","tag-original-sin","tag-protohistory","tag-religion","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"\n