The Lost World of Adam and Eve

Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate

De: John H. Walton, N.T. Wright

Narrado por: Paul Boehmer

For centuries, the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature, and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous. And even for many thinking Christians today who want to take seriously the authority of Scripture, insisting on a "literal" understanding of Genesis 2-3 looks painfully like a "tear here" strip between faith and science.

How can Christians of good faith move forward? Who were the historical Adam and Eve? What if we've been reading Genesis - and its claims regarding material origins - wrong? In what cultural context was this couple, this garden, this tree, this serpent portrayed?

Following his groundbreaking Lost World of Genesis One, John Walton explores the ancient Near Eastern context of Genesis 2-3, creating space for a faithful reading of Scripture along with full engagement with science for a new way forward in the human origins debate. As a bonus, an illuminating excursus by N. T. Wright places Adam in the implied narrative of Paul's theology.

The Lost World of Adam and Eve is a must-listen book for anyone seeking to understand this foundational text historically, and theologically, and wondering how to view it alongside contemporary understandings of human origins.

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Great treatment of the subject. So-so performance.

I really appreciated that the author's goal was to find common ground on the essence of the text, taking a very high view of Scripture, rather than trying to argue that there's only one right way to interpret the creation account. This could have devolved into an argument FOR evolution from the Bible, but instead makes a convincing argument that the Bible is not primarily concerned with material origins and thus there is room for many opinions.

Simply Fantastic

This book is like a drink of cold water for Christians wandering through the soft sciences. Simply fantastic

`Acient History

This book takes you back in Acient History and references back to the Bible on almost all of the History discribed in the bible.
This book has some very good history lesens and a lot of thoiught on bible verses described in the bible. This book has a very
different look at history and the Bible. It is a very good lisen.

Mixed feelings

Overall I truly loved the content of the book. It was gruelingly difficult to stay engaged with the reader though. Very flat and monotone. I would love to get a hard copy and read through it again as it has lots of information in it, and comes off really unbiased which is what I like. It is written in a way that visually reminds me of a dinner table set with all the fixings. The call to action in the end left me encouraged and challenged to do better.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Very good read

I appreciate John Walton and while I don’t agree with everything he put forth in this book he did help me to think in ways that can better shape my theology.

𝓓𝓮𝓮𝓹 𝓭𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼

𝓘𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓶𝔂 𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓦𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓷 𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓭𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓼 𝓲𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓮𝔁. 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷..

Uncovers what the Bible actually says

Good follow up to the first book on Genesis 1. Uncovers the intentions on the original author and how the audience would understand it. If you struggle with being a Christian and a scientist this covers a much more honest text based approach that makes the evolution/design debate moot.

Very interesting

Great book and reading. Lots to think about. I loved it. Opens up many things.

Critical book.

Great book for our modern mindset. We need to revisit Genesis. I do wish that some points were talked about in greater detail, but I understand the constraints of time.

Eye opening

No matter what you think going in, you will learn something about our Lord and His word.