Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation 9780830887835, 9780830852017

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Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation
9780830887835, 9780830852017

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Craig D. Allert

Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: Understanding the Context
1. Who Are the Church Fathers, and Why Should I Care?
2. How Not to Read the Church Fathers
3. What Does "Literal" Mean? Patristic Exegesis in Context

Part II: Reading the Fathers
4. Basil the Literalist?
5. Creation out of Nothing
6. The Days of Genesis
7. Augustine on "In the Beginning"
8. On Being like Moses

Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index

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