The Creathor's Sabbath Rest: A Clue to Genesis 1 [antikvár]

The Creator's Sabbath Rest: or the Clue to Genesis 1 by Stanley L. Jaki A chapter of perplexities Genesis 1 or the first chapter of the Book of Genesis was probably the last addition to it. In fact that chapter postdates much of the Book itself by several hundred years, perhaps by as much as half a millennium. To make matters even more curious, the Book of Genesis might not be called Genesis today without that chapter. For if one removes from the Book of Genesis its present first chapter and the first four verses of its second chapter, one is left with precious little about the origin or genesis of the world itself in the so-called second creation story that fills chapters 2 and 3. That little merely describes the original condition of the soil "at the time when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens" in the following terms: "As yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the Lord God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering the surface of the ground" (Gen 2: 5-6). All this is introductory to the formation of the first parents and to their fall. The story of their progeny, including the story of the Deluge and of the Tower of Babel is told in chapters that precede chapter 12 where the story of the patriarchs begins and takes up the remaining three fourths of the Book. All that is a sort of genesis, obviously with interest to anthropologists, but hardly to cosmologists. Insofar as they speak of the genesis of