Tag Archives: Creation

Happy New Year (Rosh HaShanah)

By David Larsen | Published: September 9, 2010
Happy (Jewish) New Year!! Today is Rosh Hashanah (“head/first of the year”), the beginning of year 5771 in the Jewish world. Rosh Hashanah is one of Judaism’s “high” holidays, and some very significant traditions are associated with it.  Rosh Hashanah marks God’s creation of the world, and is the “birthday” of Adam and Eve. The [...]
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The Exodus Narrative as Another Creation Story (for Old Testament Lesson 13)

By David Larsen | Published: March 24, 2010
Please excuse me for not sharing much for the last couple of weeks. I have been working hard on my dissertation. Unfortunately, I missed commenting on a story I really love — the Joseph in Egypt narrative. I won’t take the time to backtrack now and write much on it, but I have always thought [...]
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King and Messiah in the Psalms: From the Work of Aage Bentzen

By David Larsen | Published: April 23, 2009
For a few decades in the beginning-to-middle of the 20th century, a very interesting approach to looking at the Psalms of the Old Testament was launched, especially in Europe.  This approach, unfortunately, has fallen somewhat out of favor, and perhaps never fully caught on here in the U.S.  The approach I am referring to is [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: Creation, Adam, and the Fall

By David Larsen | Published: August 31, 2008
This post is a continuation of the last one, where I covered what I learned this week in my Age of the Fathers course. Before moving on to Dr. Andrei Orlov’s class on Apocalyptic Literature, I want to share with you some of the recommended reading titles that Dr. Barnes gave us which refer to early Christianity, [...]
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