0031 Roy Clouser closes with a stern warning that the documentary approach, investigating the alleged secret documents underlying the Old Testament, should only be carried out by experts, who are convinced that their certification protects them from the fact that they, like Augustine, are vulnerable to the slipperiness of spoken words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His article<\/em>\u00a0serves as\u00a0a witness<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0a philosophical and theological world<\/em>\u00a0that has not come to terms with\u00a0the implications that will follow<\/em>\u00a0once\u00a0our scientific world<\/em>\u00a0comes to terms with\u00a0the hypothesis of the first singularity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0032 Surely, Clouser is on target, in that a rabbi is chosen for intelligence, rather than theatrical genius. But, occasionally, both gifts arrive at the same doorstep. Ask the followers of Rabbi Joseph Solovietchik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0033 I suspect that commentary by Orthodox Jews <\/em>will swivel on the tiny stone of the first singularity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this the stone that the scientific builders rejected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, is it a jewel that turns the imagination?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The early stories of Genesis<\/em> are insider fairy tales about the social trends towards unconstrained complexity in the Ubaid and Uruk archaeological periods of southern Mesopotamia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swivel and turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0034 Orthodox Jews might appreciate another work by Razie Mah, also available at smashwords and other e-work venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments on Jeremy Cohen’s Essay (1980) “Original Sin as the Evil Inclination”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This electronic work belongs to the series, Reverberations of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 0031 Roy Clouser closes with a stern warning that the documentary approach, investigating the alleged secret documents underlying the Old Testament, should only be carried out by experts, who are convinced that their certification protects them from the fact that they, like Augustine, are vulnerable to the slipperiness of spoken words. His article\u00a0serves as\u00a0a witness\u00a0to\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,178,156,143,155,6],"tags":[64,30,201,203,198,68,204,29,45,119,194,111,202,44,200,101,199],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-an-archaeology-of-the-fall","category-concupiscence","category-genesis-1-11","category-romans-512-19","category-stories-of-adam-and-eve","category-the-science-of-original-sin","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-an-archaeology-of-the-fall","tag-ancient-near-east","tag-archaeology","tag-augustine-of-hippo","tag-bible","tag-evil-inclination","tag-first-singularity","tag-genesis","tag-human-evolution","tag-literature","tag-original-sin","tag-rabbi","tag-science","tag-sumeria","tag-ubaid","tag-uruk"],"yoast_head":"\n