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Genesis 1 and the Origins of the Universe – Ancient Cosmology E1
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Ancient Hebrew Words Modern English Meanings
When we're opening first pages of the bible, that's it. Genesis one and two are in ancient hebrew cosmologies. By cosm logy mean cosmos and lagas cosmolaga, understanding or account. And so the meaning of words then gets tied into ancient conceptions of the cosmos and how it structured. It's inseparable. i think a lot of the missteps in our debates about these chapters come when we try to give these ancient hebrew words modern english meanings. There he got second starting point is, if it's an ancient text and the words mean what they mean ancient cosmology.
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