THE THEOLOGICAL MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF YÔM IN …

THE THEOLOGICAL MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF Y?M IN GENESIS 1

by Rick Wadholm Jr.

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of PROVIDENCE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Divinity Honours

2012

Faculty Advisor _______________________________ August Konkel

Second Reader

_______________________________ Tremper Longman III

Seminary Dean _______________________________

Stan Hamm

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv-vi

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

CHAPTER I: COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-36

1. Primary Comparative Biblical Texts 2. Other ANE Creation Texts: Ugaritic, Egyptian and Mesopotamian 3. Some Concluding Remarks

CHAPTER II: THEOLOGICAL MOTIFS OF TIME IN GENESIS 1 . . . . . . . 37-57 1. Historical 2. Cultic 3. Eschatological

CHAPTER III: THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF Y?M IN GENESIS 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58-87

1. Y?m as Limitation and Exaltation 2. Y?m as Order and Separation 3. Y?m as Revelation and Anticipation

CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88-90

APPENDIX A: THEOLOGICAL POLEMIC IN GENESIS 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91-98 1. Polemic against Other ANE Cosmologies 2. Polemic against Other ANE Theogonies 3. Polemic For Temple-Building

APPENDIX B: THE "DAY" IN PSALM 90:4 AND 2 PETER 3:8 . . . . . . . . . . 99-100

BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101-107

ABBREVIATIONS

AB

Anchor Bible

ANE

Ancient Near East/ern

ANET The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Ed., J. B. Pritchard. 2 vols. Princeton University Press, 1958, 1975.

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament

ARTU Johannes C. de Moor. An Anthology of Religious Texts From Ugarit. Leiden: Brill, 1987.

BDB F. Brown, S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1907.

BCOTWP Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms

CD Karl Barth. Church Dogmatics. 4 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2010.

CTA

A. Herdner, Corpus des tablettes en cun?iforms alphab?tiques d?couvertes

? Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 ? 1939, 2 tomes, Paris 1963.

CTJ

Calvin Theological Journal

COS The Context of Scripture, ed. W. W. Hallo. 3 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997-2002.

DBSJ

Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal

DOT:Pent

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Eds., T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker. Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

EDNT Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament. 3 vols. Eds., Horst Balz and Gerhard Schneider; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1993.

ESV

English Standard Version

EvQ

Evangelical Quarterly

GKC

Gesenius Hebrew Grammar, ed. E. Kautzsch, trans. A. E. Cowley. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910.

HB

Hebrew Bible

HOL

A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Based on

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the First, Second, and Third Editions of the Koehler-Baumgartner Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros. William L. Holladay, ed.; Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1988.

IBHS

An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. B. K. Waltke and M. O'Connor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990.

IEJ

Israei Exploration Journal

JANESCU Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University

JOCABS

The Journal of the Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies

JETS

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JSOT

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series

KTU

Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, ed., M. Dietrich, O. Loretz and J. Sanmartin. AOAT 24/1; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1976.

L&N Johannes P. Louw and Eugene A. Nida, eds. Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on the Semantic Domains. New York: United Bible Societies, 1988.

NIBC

New International Biblical Commentary

OT

Old Testament

OTL

Old Testament Library

NT

New Testament

NAB

New American Bible

NAC

New American Commentary

NET

New English Translation (2nd Edition)

NICOTNew International Commentary on the Old Testament

NIDOTTE New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis. Ed., W. A. VanGemeren. 5 vols. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997.

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