Frank

In the last series of exchanges between Cheryl and Don about the historicity of Genesis 1 and its polemic usefulness, I think that we should remember that the Torah is the covenantal document of Israel, and so history and polemic are in many places combined. I don’t think it is always an either/or situation. The Torah, its parts and the whole, have to be studied in their historical, literary, and cultural context. And the whole point of the history in the Torah is to show how the descendants of Adam, Shem and Abraham became the covenantal people of God.