Lecture 33 Outline - Doctrine of Creation
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- Psalm 148: Creation as gift; we respond in praise
- Gen 1 (the “priestly source,” see Anderson, "Biblical Origins" pp. 19-23)
- Seven days : “God saw that is was good”
- Compare to building of Tent/Tabernacle (Exod 40; also the “priestly source”); a sevenfold sequence: done “according to God’s command”
- God tabernacles among us by making a portion of his person (his "glory" reside on earth. All Israel sees it.
- Proverbs 8
- An individual unit of wisdom (lower case “w”)
- Wisdom (upper case “W”) as a way of life
- Wisdom is an international phenomenon
- Wisdom as an agent in creation
- Sirach 24
- Wisdom and Torah (24:23-34)
- Resides in Temple (24:8-12)
- Jewish translation of Gen 1:1 into Aramaic: “With the agency of Wisdom, God created the world”
- the word "beginning" in Gen 1:1 is associated with Wisdom from Proverbs and Sirach
- Gospel of John (see the annotations!)
- With the agency of the Logos God creates the world (1:1-5)
- Logos means "principle of reason" a close parallel to the Hebrew word for "wisdom."
- Light in Gen 1:3 and John 1:4b-5
- Logos tabernacles among us (1:14-18, see annotation to this verse) so that we can see his glory.
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