Genesis

Advocates of a non-chronological interpretation of the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 persistently draw on Genesis 5:32 and then utilize it as a hermeneutical grid to override the force of the syntax found in Genesis 5:3-31 and 11:10-25. This constitutes a large-scale exegetical fallacy. Moreover, these arguments frequently fail to carefully engage with the interpretive possibilities represented by the Hebrew text of Genesis 5:32, which differs radically from the systematic syntactical pattern found throughout 5:3-31 and 11:10-25.
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For about 1800 years, Christian scholars interpreted the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 as yielding a continuous chronology of human history from Adam to Abraham. Up until the Reformation, a solid majority believed the Septuagint (LXX) preserved most of the original numerical figures in Genesis 5 and 11. During the Reformation, the Masoretic Text (MT) supplanted the primacy of the LXX in the western church, and thus, a chronological interpretation of Genesis 5 and 11 using the MT’s numbers became the majority viewpoint. In 1890, the chronological interpretation was challenged in a seminal article by William H. Green of Princeton Seminary, whose non-chronological interpretation eventually ascended to a position of primacy in conservative OT scholarship. Conservative OT scholars have primarily followed Green’s arguments and have interpreted archaeological discoveries dated prior to Abraham with the assumption that Genesis 5 and 11 do not yield a chronology of pre-Abrahamic history. This project seeks to revisit the question of primeval chronology and the non-chronological interpretation of Genesis 5 and 11.
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