Dr.

Abraham Kuruvilla PM 260 Preaching and Theology of Genesis 1–11

Todd 315 DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
( (214) 887-5333 SPRING 2018 3 hours
AKuruvilla@dts.edu Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:10–10:25 am

PM 260 PREACHING AND THEOLOGY OF GENESIS 1–11

S Y L L A B U S
[Version of October 2, 2017]

I. COURSE DESCRIPTION

Preparing for and preaching Genesis 1–11, emphasizing pericopal theology and application; and
researching and presenting stances on the key theological/worldview issues in this first major section of
Scripture.

Prerequisites: PM 104; BE 102; OT 101; OT 102.

Enrollment limited to 12 students. 3 hours.

II. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE

A. COGNITIVE OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the unique demands of interpreting and preaching Old Testament historical
narrative, with particular attention to Genesis 1–11.
2. Comprehend the demands of the pastorate for research, intensive theological reflection, and
teaching on critical issues in the early chapters of Genesis.

B. AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVES
1. Commit to the disciplines (hermeneutics and homiletics) of preaching narrative texts.
2. Accept the demands of Genesis 1–11 on the personal life of the student.
3. Determine to think through carefully the theological substructures of preaching texts.
4. Cultivate a stance on key theological issues in Genesis 1–11.

C. BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES
1. Develop and present homiletical outlines for the allotted pericope from Genesis 1–11, with
particular attention to pericopal theology.
2. Preach narrative sermons from Genesis 1–11 that are TRUE to the biblical text, INTERESTING to
listen to, CLEAR in organization and presentation, and RELEVANT to the listeners’ specific needs.
3. Critically listen to and analyze others’ sermons from Genesis 1–11.
4. Research pertinent theological issues in Genesis 1–11 and arrive at a coherent and cogent stance
on the issues.
5. Present a paper in class on a key theological issue that has been well worked out, taking a stance
on the topic (with copies of the paper submitted to the rest of the class).
6. Defend the arguments for one’s stance on these theological issues with appropriate validation

D. RATIONALE
Genesis 1–11 is the “Primeval History” section of the Scriptures that have a number of pericopal
theology elements that are essential for the church and the Christian to apply. Besides these chapters
bear a number of theological issues of vital interest to the church and to the world, making it
incumbent upon leaders in pastoral ministry to address these “public square” issues coherently and
 cogently, in their non-sermonic teaching—an essential facet of pastoral ministry. This course,
therefore, prepares students not only to preach Scripture and to apply the theological thrusts of
Genesis 1–11 to life and ministry, but also to think through critical topics in Genesis 1–11 pertinent to
society and culture and to take a personal stance on those issues in order to teach them.

III. COURSE READING

A. REQUIRED
1. Kuruvilla, Abraham. Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers. Eugene, Oreg.: Resource,
2014. 146 pages (“Introduction” and “Pericopes 1–6”).
2. Hiestand, Gerald, and Todd Wilson. The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. 187 pages.
3. See Bibliography for Theological Issues, below, for other required readings.

B. SUGGESTED
1. Wenham, Gordon J. Genesis 1–15. WBC. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1987.
2. Mathews, Kenneth A. Genesis 1–11:26. NAC 1A. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1996.
3. Vanhoozer, Kevin J., and Owen Strachan. The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost
Vision. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2015.

IV. COURSE REQUIREMENTS

A. READING ASSIGNMENTS (20% of the course grade)

Besides the two required texts (Kuruvilla and Hiestand/Wilson: 146 + 187 pages), students are
required to read an additional 600 pages from books/articles for their particular Theological Issue
Paper. The references in the Bibliography for Theological Issues (below) will serve as the basic sources,
though students should explore other material of sound academic quality. Students should keep a
running tab of how many pages are read, with appropriate citations of references, on the Reading
Report (below). This Reading Report should also include the percentage of the required texts
(Kuruvilla and Hiestand/Wilson) read by the due date.

The Reading Report should be attached to the hard copy of their Theological Issue Paper and turned
in at the same time (see below).

B. THEOLOGICAL ISSUE PAPER (30% of the course grade)

The student will write a 10–12-page academic paper on a substantial theological issue arising from the
preaching passage chosen (suggestions for Theological Issues for each pericope are listed in the Sign-
Up Sheet below; with permission from the professor, other topics may be entertained that are directly
or indirectly linked to the student’s chosen pericope). Imagine that your pastoral flock is struggling
with the issue or problem. This assignment is the production of a white paper on this theological issue
that will serve as a resource to help them; it crystallizes in your mind the issue, its ramifications, and a
coherent and cogent solution of the problem(s) it raises. For the purposes of this paper, the student
may, of course, go beyond the biblical pericope and consider the issue from as broad a perspective as
he/she deems necessary.

The student should create a 10–12-page paper (roughly 5,000 words; double spaced; 11-pt font),
consisting of an introductory survey of the issue and its importance in the “public square” and to the
church, a body (historical context and the variety of approaches to the issue, arguments for stance
taken by the student—from Scripture, science, and other empirical/existential observations and
realities—and rebuttals to possible counter-arguments), a conclusion, and a bibliography. Integration
and synthesis, rather than a collection of disconnected details, is be the goal of this paper. (See

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 example uploaded to Canvas: “Christology in the Aqedah of Genesis 22?”)

The Theological Issue Paper is to be emailed as a pdf to the professor no later than one week before
the presentation is due in class (see Course Schedule); the file will be posted on Canvas for classmates
to scrutinize. A hardcopy of the Paper will be handed in to the professor on the day of the
presentation.

During each class period allotted for Theological Issue presentations, two students will make a 30-
minute presentation each: the presentation will consist of an oral summary of the paper they have
written (15 minutes: a brief introduction, a brief description of the stance taken and its validation, and
a brief conclusion) followed by a discussion period (15 minutes). The discussion will be free-wheeling,
but will focus on clarifications and potential improvements for the paper; input from all students is
invited and expected—it is anticipated that they will have read the papers for the day before each class
session.

C. GENESIS 1–11 HOMILETICAL OUTLINE (10% of the course grade)

According to the Course Schedule, each student will present a one-page homiletical outline, including
the application, for the chosen narrative pericope from Genesis 1–11. The kind of outline employed is
left to the choice of the student. Each point and sub-point (up to three levels of subordination: e.g., I.
A. 1. 2. B. 1. 2.; etc.) must be in a full sentence. This outline should be based on/consistent with the
hermeneutical material in Kuruvilla’s Genesis (or, if the student so chooses, based on his/her own
work that can be adequately defended). A one-page hardcopy of the student’s outline is due the
professor at the time of presentation.

D. GENESIS 1–11 SERMON (40% of the course grade)

Each student will prepare and deliver a 25-minute message from a narrative passage chosen. While
notes are permitted, please remember that points will be subtracted for not engaging with the
audience.

Hard copies of a full homiletical outline of the sermon carried to three levels of subordination and a
separate, full manuscript are to be submitted to the professor in class on the day the student preaches.
A manuscript for a 25-minute sermon usually contains 2,500–3,000 words (your mileage may vary).
The manuscript should reflect to the fullest extent what the student expects to say in the oral
presentation (i.e., with all transitions, restatements, Scripture readings, illustrations, etc., written out
in full). Don’t forget: The manuscript should be written as a sermon to be heard by the audience, not as
an essay to be read by them. Deficient outlines and manuscripts will incur a penalty at the professor’s
discretion.

Students may not exceed the time limits for each sermon (25 minutes). Generally, a deduction of one
mark (A– to B+; B+ to B; etc.), but at the professor’s discretion, will occur for every 30 seconds a
sermon extends beyond the time allowed.
All sermons will be recorded on a DVD that the student brings. The required format is DVD–R (not
DVD+R).

V. COURSE POLICIES

A. WEIGHT GIVEN TO COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADING

On-time Reading 20%
Genesis Theological Issue Presentation 30%
Genesis 1–11 Homiletical Outline 10%
Genesis 1–11 Sermon 40%

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 B. CLASS PARTICIPATION
Attendance and class participation are a requirement of the course and, more importantly, a ministry
to other students, especially when they are presenting outlines, reading papers, or preaching sermons.
Students should plan to attend and participate in every class session.

C. LATE ASSIGNMENTS
Late assignments may be accepted, but with appropriate penalties.

D. ABSENCES
More than four absences will result in a penalty. Each absence above the four allowed will result in a
4% reduction in grade.

E. LETTER/NUMERICAL GRADE SCALE

A+ 99–100 B+ 91–93 C+ 83–85 D+ 75–77 F 0–69

A 96–98 B 88–90 C 80–82 D 72–74
A– 94–95 B– 86–87 C– 78–79 D– 70–71

VI. COURSE SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Students must notify the professor during the first week of classes if they plan to graduate at the end of
the semester.

Please be sure that all assignments turned in, electronic or otherwise, are double-spaced and include the
following information on a cover sheet: student’s name, folder number, name of professor, course and
section numbers, and title of assignment (as per the DTS–Turabian format).

Some of the communication between professors and students will occur by e-mail. Students are
responsible for checking their e-mail regularly for any class-related announcements that may come via
that route.

NOTE: If you desire, you may email draft homiletical outlines and draft outlines of the Theological Issues
Paper (but not draft manuscripts of either assignment) to the professor for feedback before they are
formally presented, any time up to—but not including—the day before the presentation is due. While the
professor, at his discretion, may give you considerable help, remember that public presentation/critique of
your work is helpful to others in the class; therefore, the professor will not be aiding you to perfect your
work before presentation. And, of course, you will be graded only on the final product that is submitted on
the day of presentation as assigned in the Course Schedule.

Dallas Theological Seminary does not discriminate on the basis of disability in the operation of any of its
programs and activities. To avoid discrimination the student is responsible for informing the Coordinator of
Services for Students with Disabilities and the course instructor of any disabling condition that will require
modifications.

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VII. COURSE LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE

NO. DATE CLASS TOPIC/ACTIVITY PRESENTER(S) OTHER INFORMATION

1 1/16 Introduction; Review of Exposition Please bring Syllabus to class
2 1/18 Worlds and Pericopal Theology
3 1/23 Application and Significance
4 1/25 Christology in the Old Testament
5 1/30 Sermon Structures: Working with Genesis Kuruvilla, Genesis, 1–146
6 2/01 Walking through Genesis 1–11 Please bring commentary to class
7 2/06 Walking through Genesis 1–11 (contd.) Please bring commentary to class
8 2/08 Doing the Research for Theological Issues
9 2/13 Homiletical Outlines Students 1–3
10 2/15 Homiletical Outlines Students 4–6
11 2/20 Homiletical Outlines Students 7–9
12 2/22 Homiletical Outlines Students 10–12
13 2/27 Pastoral Preaching as Spiritual Direction
14 3/01 Pastoral Teaching as Spiritual Direction Hiestand/Wilson, The Pastor Theologian
March 05–09 W E C W E E K
March 12–16 S P R I N G B R E A K
15 3/20 Presenting a Theological Issue Paper
16 3/22 Preaching a Genesis Sermon
17 3/27 Theological Issue Paper Presentation Students 1–2 Reading Report (attached to Paper)
18 3/29 Theological Issue Paper Presentation Students 3–4 Reading Report (attached to Paper)
19 4/03 Theological Issue Paper Presentation Students 5–6 Reading Report (attached to Paper)
20 4/05 Theological Issue Paper Presentation Students 7–8 Reading Report (attached to Paper)
21 4/10 Theological Issue Paper Presentation Students 9–10 Reading Report (attached to Paper)
22 4/12 Theological Issue Paper Presentation Students 11–12 Reading Report (attached to Paper)
23 4/17 Sermons Students 1–2 Genesis 1:1–31; 2:1–17
24 4/19 Sermons Students 3–4 Genesis 2:18–25; 3:1–24
25 4/24 Sermons Students 5–6 Genesis 4:1–26; 5:1–32
26 4/26 Sermons Students 7–8 Genesis 6:1–8; 6:8–22
27 5/01 Sermons Students 9–10 Genesis 7:1–8:19; 8:20–9:29
28 5/03 Sermons Students 11–12 Genesis 10:1–32; 11:1–26

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VIII. THEOLOGICAL ISSUE and PREACHING TEXT ALLOTMENTS SIGN UP SHEET
[These Theological Issues are suggestions. Other ideas may be approved in consultation with the professor.]

STUDENT SUGGESTED PREACHING

NAME
NUMBER THEOLOGICAL ISSUES PERICOPES

Creation vs. Evolution

1 Genesis 1:1–31
Imago Dei

The Rest of God

2 Genesis 2:1–17
State of Perfection/Creation-Temple

Historical Adam?
3 Genesis 2:18–25
Marriage/One-Fleshedness

Historical Fall/Original Sin

4 Genesis 3:1–24
Trees of Life/Knowledge of Good and Evil

Inheritance of Sin/”Flesh”
5 Genesis 4:1–26
Cities & Civilization/Secularization

Patriarchal Ages
6 Genesis 5:1–32
Sin and Death

Sons of God
7 Genesis 6:1–8
God’s Repentance?

Favor with God/Obedience of Man

8 Genesis 6:8–22
The Christian and OT Law

The Flood: Local or Universal?

9 Genesis 7:1–8:19
What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Noahic Covenant/Dominion Mandate

10 Genesis 8:20–9:29
Death Penalty

Biblical Genealogies
11 Genesis 10:1–32
The Human Race: Origins, Issues

Origins of Language
12 Genesis 11:1–26
God’s Choice of Israel

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IX. READING REPORT
[Please print out additional copies of this sheet as necessary. Fill out and attach to Theological Issues Paper.]

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES OF ITEMS READ PAGES READ

1 Kuruvilla: Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers. Eugene, OR: Resource, 2014.

2 Hiestand and Wilson: The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015.

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

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21

22

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25

26

TOTAL

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BIBLIOGRAPHY for THEOLOGICAL ISSUES
[These are suggestions and starter sources. Students are responsible for exploring further.]
[All books, with rare exceptions, can be found in Turpin Library; all articles and many books are available online as noted.]

Creation vs. Evolution

Charles, J. Daryl, ed. Reading Genesis 1–2: An Evangelical Conversation. Peabody: Mass.: Hendrickson, 2013.
BS1235.52 .R44
Lennox, John C. Seven Days that Divide the World. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. BS651 .L3625
Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Downers Grove:
InterVarsity, 2009. [Available online through Turpin Library]

Imago Dei
Berkouwer, G. C. Man: The Image of God. Studies in Dogmatics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962. BT701.2 .B413
Hoekema, Anthony A. Created in God’s Image. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986. BT701.2 .H623
Lints, Richard. Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and its Inversion. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2015.
BT103 .L56

Bird, Phyllis A. “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Gen 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of
Creation.” HTR 74 (1981): 129–59.
Clines, David J. A. “The Image of God in Man.” TynBul 19 (1968): 53–103.
Garr, W. Randall. “‘Image’ and ‘Likeness’ in the Inscription from Tell Fakhariyeh.” IEJ 50 (2000): 227–34.

The Rest of God

Levenson, Jon D. Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible. Minneapolis, Minn.: Winston, 1985. BS1192.5
.L48
Walton, John. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. [Available online through Turpin
Library]
Laansma, Jon. ‘I Will Give You Rest’: The Rest Motif in the New Testament with Special Reference to Mt 11 and
Heb 3–4. WUNT Reihe 2.98. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997. BS2545.R46 L22

Levenson, Jon D. “The Paronomasia of Solomon’s Seventh Petition.” HAR 6 (1982): 135–138.
Levenson, Jon D. “The Temple and the World.” JR 64 (1984): 275–98.

State of Perfection/Creation-Temple
Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. [Available online from Turpin
Library]
Weinfeld, Moshe. “Sabbath, Temple and the Enthronement of the Lord—the Problem of the Sitz im Leben of
Genesis 1:1–2:3.” Pages 505–12 in Mélanges bibliques et orientaux en l’honneur de M. Henri Cazelles.
Alter Orient und Altes Testament 212. Edited by André Caquot and Mathias Delcor. Kevelaer,
Germany: Butzon & Bercker, 1981. BS1192 .M44

Levenson, Jon D. “The Temple and the World.” JR 64 (1984): 275–98.

Nelson, Harold H. “The Significance of the Temple in the Ancient Near East: I. The Egyptian Temple.” BA 7
(1944): 44–53.
Wright, G. Ernest. “The Significance of the Temple in the Ancient Near East: III. The Temple in Palestine-
Syria.” BA 7 (1944): 66–77.

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Historical Adam?
Enns, Peter. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins. Grand Rapids:
Brazos, 2012. BS661 .E56
Lemoureux, Denis O., John H. Walton, C. John Collins, and William Barrick. Four Views on the Historical
Adam. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. BS580.A4 F68
Walton, John H. The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate. Downers Grove:
InterVarsity, 2015. BS1235.52 .W34

Chisholm, Robert. “‘For This Reason’: Etiology and Its Implications for the Historicity of Adam.” CTR 10
(2013): 27–51.
Kaiser, Walter C., Jr. “A Literal and Historical Adam and Eve? Reflections on the Work of Peter Enns.” CTR 10
(2013): 75–82.
Soden, John M. “From the Dust: Creating Adam in Historical Context.” BSac 172 (2015): 45–66.

Marriage/One-fleshedness
Bennett, Jana Marguerite. Water is Thicker than Blood: An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. BT706 .B46
Grenz, Stanley, Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997. [Available
online through Turpin Library]
Jensen, David Hadley. God, Desire, and a Theology of Human Sexuality. Louisville: Westminster John Knox,
2013. BT708 .J46
Parsons, Michael. Reformation Marriage: The Husband and Wife Relationship in the Theology of Luther and
Calvin. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2005. BR333.5.M2 P37

Brueggemann, Walter. “Of the Same Flesh and Bone (Gn 2,23a).” CBQ 32 (1970): 532–42.
Kostenberger, Andreas J. “The Mystery of Christ and the Church: Head and Body, ‘One Flesh.’” TrinJ 12 NS
(1991): 79–94.
Lee, Patrick, and Robert P. George. “What Male-Female Complementarity Makes Possible: Marriage as a Two-
in-One-Flesh Union.” TS 69 (2000): 641–62.
Son, S. Aaron, “Implications of Paul’s ‘One Flesh’ Concept for His Understanding of the Nature of Man.” BBR
11 (2001): 107–22.

Historical Fall/Original Sin

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Creation and Fall: A Theological Interpretation of Genesis 1–3. New York: Macmillan,
1959. BS1235 .B6513
Madueme, Hans. Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical, and Scientific Perspectives. Grand
Rapids: Baker, 2014. BT720 .A33
McFarland, Ian A. In Adam’s Fall: A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-
Blackwell, 2010. BT720 .M18
Shuster, Marguerite. The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. BT710
.53
Storms, C. Samuel. Tragedy in Eden: Original Sin in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Lanham, Md.: University
Press of America, 1985. BT720 .S76

Crisp, Oliver D. “On Original Sin.” IJST 17 (2015): 252–66.

Duffy, Stephen J. “Genes, Original Sin and the Human Proclivity to Evil.” Horizons 32 (2005): 210–34.
Fretheim, Terence E. “Is Genesis 3 a Fall Story?” Word & World 14 (1994): 144–53.
Gieschen, Charles A. “Original Sin in the New Testament.” Concordia J. 31 (2005): 359–75.
Lamoureux, Denis O. “Beyond Original Sin: Is a Theological Paradigm Shift Inevitable?” Persp. Science and
Christian Faith 67 (2015): 35–49.

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Milne, D. J. W. “Genesis 3 in the Letter to the Romans,” RTR 39 (1980): 10–18.
Murray, John. “The Imputation of Adam’s Sin: Second Article.” WTJ 19 (1956): 25–44
Murray, John. “The Imputation of Adam’s Sin.” WTJ 18 (1956): 146–62.
Nassif, Bradley L. “Toward a ‘Catholic’ Understanding of St. Augustine’s View of Original Sin.” USQR 39 (1984):
287–99.
Willows, Adam M. “Augustine, the Origin of Evil, and the Mystery of Free Will.” RelStud 50 (2014): 255–69.

Trees of Life/Knowledge of Good and Evil

Morris, Paul, and Deborah F. Sawyer. A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical, and Literary Images of
Eden. JSOTSS 136. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 192. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Widengren, Geo. The King and the Tree of Life in Ancient Near Eastern Religion. Uppsala: Lundequistska
bokhandein, 1951. AS284 .U7

Bachmann, Veronika. “Rooted in Paradise? The Meaning of the ‘Tree of Life’ in 1 Enoch 24–25 Reconsidered.” J.
Study of the Pseudepigrapha 19 (2009): 83–107.
Clines, D. J. A. “The Tree of Knowledge and the Law of Yahweh (Psalm XIX).” VT 24 (1974): 8–14.
Marcus, Ralph. “The Tree of Life in Proverbs.” JBL 62 (1943): 117–20.
Niehoff, Maren R. “Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah.” J. Study of Judaism 39 (2008): 337–66.
Osborne, William R. “The Tree of Life in Ancient Egypt and the Book of Proverbs.” JANER 14 (2014): 114–39.
Stern, Herold S. “‘The Knowledge of Good and Evil.’” VT 8 (1958): 405–18.
Watson, Paul. “The Tree of Life.” RestQ 23 91980): 232–38.
Wong, Daniel K. K. “The Tree of Life in Revelation 2:7.” BSac 155 (1998): 211–26

Brady, James Robert. “The Tree of Life: An Exegetical and Theological Study of an Old Testament Motif.” Th.M.
Thesis. Dallas Theological Seminary, 1982. BV168.T7 .B72
Jenks, Joshua D. “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: A Better Understanding of the Knowledge
Gained.” Th.M. Thesis. Capital Bible Seminary, 2008. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Powell, Edmund R. “The Significance of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” M.A. Thesis. Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School, 1999. [Available online through Turpin Library]

“Flesh” or “Sin Nature”/Inheritance of Sin

Barclay, William. Flesh and Spirit: An Examination of Galatians 5:19–23. London: SCM, 1962. BS2685.2 .B3
Beatrice, Pier Franco, and Adam Kamesar. The Transmission of Sin: Augustine and the Pre-Augustinian Sources.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. BT720 .B413
Burton, Ernest DeWitt. Spirit, Soul, and Flesh: The Usage of Pneu/ma, Yuch,, and Sa,rx in Greek Writings and
Translated Works from the Earliest Period to 225 A.D.; and of their Equivalents h;Wr, vp,n<, and rf'B' in the
Hebrew Old Testament. Historical and Linguistic Studies Second Series Volume III. Chicago: University
of Chicago, 1918. [Available at https://archive.org/details/spiritsoulandfl00burtgoog]
Russell, Walter Bo. The Flesh/Spirit Conflict in Galatians. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1997.
BS2545.F55 R87

Dayton, Wilber T. “The New Testament Conception of Flesh.” Wesleyan Theol. J. 2 (1967): 7–17.
Marshall, I. Howard, “Living in the ‘Flesh.’” BSac 159 (2002): 387–403.
Murphy, Lawrence F. “Martin Luther’s Marginal Notes to the Sentences of Peter Lombard on the Transmission
of Original Sin.” Science et Esprit 33 (1981): 55–71.
Russell, Walter Bo. “Does the Christian Have ‘Flesh’ in Gal 5:13–26?” JETS 36 (1993): 179–87.
Smith, David L. “Modern Trends in the Theology of Sin: The Transmission of Sin.” Didaskalia 9 (1998): 83–89.
Willard, Dallas. “Spiritual Formation and the Warfare Between the Flesh and the Human Spirit.” J. of Spiritual
Formation & Soul Care 6 (2013): 152–59.

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Clark David K. “Self, Flesh, and Old Self: A Theological Interpretation.” ETS-1240: Paper presented at the
Evangelical Theological Society, undated. [Available online through Turpin Library]

Cities and Civilization/Secularization

Augustine. City of God. Loeb Classical Library 411–417. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957–1972.
[Available online through Turpin Library.]
Bruce, Steve. God is Dead: Secularization in the West. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002. BL2747.8 .B78
Bruce, Steve. Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
[Available online through Turpin Library]
Ellul, Jacques. The Meaning of the City. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970. BS680.C5 E413
Fujino, Gary, Timothy R. Sisk, and Tereso C. Casiño. Reaching the City: Reflections on Urban Missions in the
Twenty-First Century. Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey Library, 2012. BV2653 .R43
Häring, Bernhard. Faith and Morality in the Secular Age. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973. [Available online
through Turpin Library]
Loen, Arnold E. Secularization: Science Without God? London: SCM Press, 1967. BL2747.8 .L613

Mantzaridēs, Geōrgios I. “The Phenomenon of Secularization.” GOTR 25 (1980): 1–9.

Martin, David. “Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularisation?” Science and Christian Belief 19 (2007): 3–14.
Stark, Rodney. “Secularization: The Myth of Religious Decline.” Fides et Historia 30 (1998): 1–19.

Patriarchal Ages
Pfeiffer, Charles F. The Patriarchal Age. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1961. BS1180 .P49

Abrami, Leo Michel. “The Ages of the Personalities in Genesis.” JBQ 39 (2011): 258–62.
Bryan, David T. “A Reevaluation of Gen 4 and 5 in Light of Recent Studies in Genealogical Fluidity.” ZAW 99
(1987): 180–88.
Cryer, Frederick H. “The Interrelationships of Gen 5:32, 11:10–11 and the Chronology of the Flood (Gen 6–9).”
Bib 66 (1985): 241–61.
Etz, Donald V. “The Numbers of Genesis V 3–31: A Suggested Conversion and Its Implications.” VT 43 (1993):
171–89.
Freeman, Travis R. “A New Look at the Genesis 5 and 11 Fluidity Problem.” AUSS 42 (2004): 259–86.
Green, William Henry. “Primeval Chronology.” BSac 47 (1890): 285–303.
Harrison, R. K. “From Adam to Noah: A Reconsideration of the Antediluvian Patriarchs’ Ages.” JETS 37 (1994):
161–68.
Hartman, Thomas C. “Some Thoughts on the Sumerian King List and Genesis 5 and 11B.” JBL 91 (1972): 25–32.
Hasel, Gerhard F. “The Genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 and Their Alleged Babylonian Background.” AUSS 16
(1978): 361–374.
López, Raúl Erlando. “Temporal Changes in the Ageing of Biblical Patriarchs.” CEN Technical Journal 14 (2000):
109–117.
Merrill, Eugene H. “The Lifespans of the EB-MB Patriarchs: A Hermeneutical and Historical Conundrum.”
SWJT 57 (2015): 267–80.
Northcote, Jeremy. “The Lifespans of the Patriarchs: Schematic Orderings in the Chrono-Genealogy.” VT 57
(2007): 243–57.
Sexton, Jeremy. “Who Was Born When Enosh Was 90? A Semantic Reevaluation of William Henry Green’s
Chronological Gaps.” WTJ 77 (2015): 193–218.
Spero, Shubert. “Ten Generations From Adam to Noah Versus Ten Generations From Noah to Abraham.” JBQ
39 (2011): 165–68.
Walton, John. “The Antediluvian Section of the Sumerian King List and Genesis 5.” BA 44 (1981): 207–208.
Yeivin, Shemeul. “The Age of the Patriarchs.” Rivista degli studi orientali 38 (1963): 277–302.

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Sin and Death
Anderson, Gary A. Sin: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. BL475.7 .A53
Braaten, Carl E., and Robert W. Jenson, Sin, Death, and the Devil. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 2000. BT715 .S63
Morris, Leon. The Wages of Sin: An Examination of the New Testament Teaching on Death. London: Tyndale,
1954. BS2545.D45 M87
Novello, Henry L. Death as Transformation: A Contemporary Theology of Death. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2011.
BT825 .N74
Osborn, Ronald E., and John H. Walton, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal
Suffering. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2014. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Rahner, Karl. On the Theology of Death. New York: Herder and Herder, 1961. BT825 .R313
Shuster, Marguerite. The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. BT710
.S53

Barosse, Thomas. “Death and Sin in Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.” CBQ 15 (1953): 438–59.
Hollander, H. W., and J. Holleman. “The Relationship of Death, Sin, and Law in 1 Cor 15:56.” NovT 35 (1993):
270–91.
Vlachos, Chris Alex. “Law, Sin, and Death: An Edenic Triad? An Examination with Reference to 1 Corinthians
15:56.” JETS 47 (2004): 277–98.
Weinrich, William C. “God Did Not Create Death: Athanasius on the Atonement.” CTQ 72 (2008): 291–304.

Sons of God
Amirav, Hagit. “Exegetical Models and Chrysostomian Homiletics: The Example of Gen. 6.2.” Pages 311–19 in
Studia Patristica Vol. XXXVII: Cappadocian Writers; Other Greek Writers. Edited by M. F. Wiles and E.
J. Yarnold. Leuven, Netherlands: Peeters, 2001. BR67 .I58
Hendel, Ronald S. “The Nephilim Were on the Earth: Genesis 6.1–4 and Its Ancient Near Eastern Context.”
Pages 11–34 in Fall of the Angels. TBN 6. Edited by Christopher Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck;
Leiden: Brill, 2004. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Vervenne, Marc. “All They Need Is Love: Once More Genesis 6.1–4.” Pages 19–40 in Words Remembered, Texts
Renewed: Essays in Honour of John F. A. Sawyer. Edited by Jon Davies, Graham Harvey, and Wilfred G.
E. Watson. JSOTSS 195. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. [Available online through Turpin
Library]
Wickham, L. R. “The Sons of God and the Daughers of Men: Genesis VI 2 in Early Christian Exegesis.” Pages
135–47 in Language and Meaning: Studies in Hebrew Language and Biblical Exegesis. Edited by A. S. Van
Der Woude. OTS 19. Leiden: Brill, 1974. BS1192 .O87
Wright, Archie T. “Strategies for Interpreting Genesis 6:1–4,” Pages 51–95 in The Origin of Evil Spirits. By
Archie T. Wright. WUNT 198. 2nd revised edition. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. BS1235.52 .W75

Birney, Leroy. “An Exegetical Study of Genesis 6:1–4.” JETS 13 (1970): 43–52.
Cefalu, Rita F. “Royal Priestly Heirs to the Restoration Promise of Genesis 3:15: A Biblical Theological
Perspective on the Sons of God in Genesis 6.” WTJ 76 (2014): 351–70.
Clines, David J. A. “The Significance of the ‘Sons of God’ Episode (Genesis 6:1–4) in the Context of the ‘Primeval
History’ (Genesis 1–11).” JSOT 13 (1979): 33–46.
Day, John. “The Sons of God and Daughters of Men and the Giants: Disputed Points in the Interpretation of
Genesis 6:1–4,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 1 (2012): 427–47.
Eslinger, Lyle. “A Contextual Identification of the bene ha’elohim and benoth ha’ adam in Genesis 6:1–4.” JSOT
13 (1979): 65–73.
Fockner, Steve. “Reopening the Discussion: Another Contextual Look at the Sons of God.” JSOT 32 (2008): 435–
56.
Gilboa, R. “Who ‘Fell Down’ to Our Earth? A Different Light on Genesis 6:1–4. BN 111 (2002): 66–75.

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Hendel, Ronald S. “Of Demigods and the Deluge: Toward an Interpretation of Genesis 6.1–4.” JBL 106 (1987):
13–26.
Hong, Joseph. “Problems in an Obscure Passage: Notes on Genesis 6:1–4.” BT 40 (1989): 419–26.
Kaminski, Carol M. “Beautiful Women or ‘False Judgment’? Interpreting Genesis 6.2 in the Context of the
Primaeval History.” JSOT 32 (2008): 457–73.
Kio, Stephen Hre. “Revisiting ‘The Sons of God’ in Genesis 6.1–4,” BT 52 (2001): 234–39.
Kline, Meredith G. “Divine Kingship and Genesis 6:1–4.” WTJ 24 (1962): 187–204.
Kvanvig, Helge S. “Gen 6,1–4 as an Antediluvian Event.” SJOT 16 (2002): 79–112.
Marrs, Rick. “The Sons of God (Genesis 6:1–4).” RestQ 24 (1980): 218–24.
Melvin, David. “The Gilgamesh Traditions and the Pre-History of Genesis 6:1–4.” Persp. Rel. Stud. 38 (2011):
23–32.
Petersen, David L. “Genesis 6:1–4, Yahweh and the Organization of the Cosmos.” JSOT 13 (979): 47–64.
Reed, Annette Yoshiko. “The Trickery of Fallen Angels and the Demonic Mimesis of the Divine: Aetiology,
Demonology, and Polemics in the Writings of Justin Martyr.” JECS 12 (2004): 141–71.
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. “The ‘Angels’ and ‘Giants’ of Genesis 6:1–4 in Second and Third Century BCE Jewish
Interpretation: Reflections on the Posture of Early Apocalyptic Traditions.” Dead Sea Discoveries 7
(2000): 354–77.
Van Gemeren, Willem A. “The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4 (An Example of Evangelical Demythologization?).”
WTJ 43 (1981): 320–48.

God’s Repentance?
Craig, William Lane. Time and Eternity: Exploring God’s Relationship to Time. Wheaton: Crossway, 2001.
BT153.I47 C73
Dodds, Michael J. The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine
Immutability. 2nd edition. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008. [Available
online through Turpin Library]
Frame, John M. No Other God. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2001. BT102 .F755
Hallman, Joseph M. The Coming of the Impassable God: Tracing a Dilemma in Christian Theology. Piscataway,
N.J.: Gorgias, 2007. BT198 .H35

Allison, Dale C. “Romans 11:11–15: A Suggestion.” Persp Rel Stud 12 (1985): 23–30.
Biddle, Mark E. “Contingency, God, and the Babylonians: Jeremiah on the Complexity of Repentance.” RevExp
101 (2004): 247–55.
Bradshaw, David. “The Philosophical Theology of St. Cyril’s Against Julian.” Phronema 29 (1014): 21–39.
Chisholm, Robert B. “Anatomy of an Anthropomorphism: Does God Discover Facts?” BSac 164 (2007): 3–20.
Chisholm, Robert B. “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament.” BSac 153 (1996): 410–34.
Chisholm, Robert B. “Does God ‘Change His Mind’?” BSac 152 (1995): 387–99.
Fretheim, Terence E. “Divine Foreknowledge, Divine Constancy, and the Rejection of Saul’s Kingship.” CBQ 47
(1985): 595–602.
Fretheim, Terence E. “The Repentance of God: A Key to Evaluating Old Testament God-Talk.” HorBT 10
(1988): 47–70.
Hallman, Joseph M. “The Mutability of God: Tertullian to Lactantius.” TS 42 (1981): 373–93.
Helm, Paul. “B. B. Warfield on Divine Passion.” WTJ 69 (2007): 95–104.
Kuyper, Lester Jacob. “Suffering and the Repentance of God.” SJT 22 (1969): 257–77.
Maier, Walter A, III. “Does God ‘Repent’ or Change His Mind?” CTQ 68 (2004): 127–43.
Master, Jonathan. “Exodus 32 as an Argument for Traditional Theism.” JETS 45 (2002): 585–98.
Pinnock, Clark H. “There Is Room for Us: A Reply to Bruce Ware.” JETS 45 (2002): 213–19.
Raabe, Paul R. “When Yahweh Repents.” Logia 16 (2007): 31–34.
Ware, Bruce. “An Evangelical Reformulation of the Doctrine of the Immutability of God.” JETS 29 (1986): 431–
46.

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Ware, Bruce. “An Exposition and Critique of the Process Doctrines of Divine Mutability and Immutability.”
WTJ 47 (1985): 175–96.
Wills, John T. “The ‘Repentance’ of God in the Books of Samuel, Jeremiah, and Jonah.” HorBT 16 (1994): 156–
75.

Parunak, Henry Van Dyke. “The Repentance of God in the Old Testament.” Th.M. Thesis. Dallas Theological
Seminary, 1973. BT102 .P37

Favor with God/Obedience of Man AND The Christian and OT Law

Kuruvilla, Abraham. Privilege the Text! A Theological Hermeneutic for Preaching. Chicago: Moody, 2013 (pages
150–258). [Start here and isolate a topic of interest.] BS511.3 .K87
Badenas, Robert. Christ The End of the Law: Romans 10.4 in Pauline Perspective. JSNTSS 10. Sheffield: JSOT
Press, 1985. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Carmichael, Calum. The Spirit of Biblical Law. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1996. BS1199.L3 C37
Cranfield, C. E. B. “Has the Old Testament Law a Place in the Christian Life? A Response to Professor
Westerholm.” Pages 109–124 in On Romans and Other New Testament Essays. By C. E. B. Cranfield.
London: T. & T. Clark, 1998. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Dillow, Joseph C. Final Destiny: The Future Reign of the Servant Kings. Monument, Col.: Grace Theology Press,
2013. BT751.3 .D44
Dunn, James D. G. “‘The Law of Faith,’ ‘the Law of the Spirit’ and ‘the Law of Christ.’” Pages 62–82 in Theology
and Ethics in Paul and His Interpreters: Essays in Honor of Victor Paul Furnish. Edited by Eugene H.
Lovering and Jerry L. Sumney. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. BS2650.2 .T48
Garlington, Don B. Faith, Obedience and Perseverance. WUNT 79. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1994.
BS2665.2 .G36
Moule, C. F. D. “Obligation in the Ethic of Paul.” Pages 389–406 in Christian History and Interpretation: Studies
Presented to John Knox. Edited by W. R. Farmer, C. F. D. Moule, and R. R. Niebuhr; Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1967. BR50 .C52
Schreiner, Thomas R. The Law and Its Fulfillment: A Pauline Theology of Law. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993.
BS2655.L35 S374
Sprinkle, Joe M. Biblical Law and its Relevance: A Christian Understanding and Ethical Application for Today of
the Mosaic Regulations. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006. BS1199.E8 S65
Wright, Christopher J. H. Old Testament Ethics for the People of God. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2004.
BS1199.E8 W75

Block, Daniel I. “Preaching Old Testament Law to New Testament Christians.” Southeastern Theol Rev 3 (2012):
195–221.
Dorsey, David A. “Enumerating, Categorizing, and Applying the Old Testament Laws: New Suggestions for
Some Old Questions.” EvJ 30 (2012): 49–80.
Dorsey, David A. “The Law of Moses and the Christian: A Compromise.” JETS 34 (1991): 321–334.
Dorsey, David A. “The Use of the OT Law in Christian Life: A Theocentric Approach.” EvJ 17 (1998): 1–18.
Du Toit, A. B. “Faith and Obedience in Paul.” Neot 25 (1991): 66–74.
Hays, J. Daniel. “Applying the Old Testament Law Today.” BSac 158 (2001): 21–35.
Kaiser, Walter C. “Leviticus 18:5 and Paul: Do This and You Shall Live (Eternally?).” JETS 14 (1971): 19–28.
Ryrie, Charles C. “The End of the Law.” BSac 124 (1967): 239–247.
Valentino, Timothy R. “‘Imitators of God’: A Theocentric Approach to the Christian Preaching of Old
Testament Law.” EvJ 32 (2014): 49–67.

The Flood: Local or Universal? AND What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Dundes, Alan. The Flood Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press. BL325.D4 F55

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Florentino, Garcia Martinez, and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen. Interpretations of the Flood. Leiden: Brill, 1998. BS658
.I58
Olson, Kenneth H. Lens to the Natural World: Reflections on Dinosaurs, Galaxies, and God. Eugene, Oreg.: Wipf
& Stock, 2011. BS659 .O47
Pleins, J. David. When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah’s Flood. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2003. BS580.N6 P58
Silverman, Jason M. Opening Heaven’s Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Context, and Reception.
Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2013. BS1235.52 .O64
Wilson, Ian. Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002. BS658 .W55
Young, David A. The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church’s Response to Extrabiblical Evidence. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. BS658 .Y68

Barré, Lloyd M. “The Riddle of the Flood Chronology.” JSOT 41 (1988): 3–20.
Chen, Y. S. “The Flood Motif as a Stylistic and Temporal Device in Sumerian Literary Traditions.” JANER 12
(2012): 158–89.
Emerton, J. A. “An Examination of Some Attempts to Defend the Unity of the Flood Narrative in Genesis, Pt 1.”
VT 37 (1987): 401–20.
Emerton, J. A. “An Examination of Some Attempts to Defend the Unity of the Flood Narrative in Genesis, Pt 2.”
VT 38 (1988): 1–21.
Feldman, Louis H. “Questions about the Great Flood, as Viewed by Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus, and the
Rabbis. ZAW 115 (2003): 401–22.
Gunn, David M. “Deutero-Isaiah and the Flood.” JBL 94 (1975): 493–508.
Holloway, Steven W. “What Ship Goes There: The Flood Narratives in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis
Considered in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Temple Ideology.” ZAW 103 (1991): 328–55.
Moran, William L. “Atra-hasīs: The Babylonian Story of the Flood; The Sumerian Flood Story.” Bib 52 (1971):
51–61.
Norsker, Amanda. “Genesis 6,5–9,17: A Rewritten Babylonian Flood Myth.” SJOT 29 (2015): 55–62.
Seely, Paul H. “Noah’s Flood: Its Date, Extent, and Divine Accommodation.” WTJ 66 (2004): 291–311.
Spero, Shubert. “The Biblical Stories of Creation, Garden of Eden and the Flood: History or Metaphor?”
Tradition 33 (1999): 5–18.
Streett, Daniel R. “As It Was in the Days of Noah: The Prophets’ Typological Interpretation of Noah’s Flood.”
CTR NS 5 (2007): 33–51.
Tanner, J. Paul. “Old Testament Chronology and Its Implications for the Creation and Flood Accounts.” BSac
172 (2015): 24–44.
Wenham, Gordon J. “Coherence of the Flood Narrative.” VT 28 (1978): 336–48.

Navarro, Luke Alonso. “A Literary Analysis of the Flood Narrative.” Th.M. thesis. Dallas Theological Seminary,
2004. [Available online through Turpin Library]

The Noahic Covenant/Dominion Mandate

Bahnsen, Greg L. No Other Standard: Theonomy and Its Critics. Tyler, Tex.: Institute for Christian Economics,
1991. BT127.7 .B34
Bahnsen, Greg L., and Kenneth L. Gentry. House Divided: The Break-Up of Dispensational Theology. Tyler, Tex.:
Institute for Christian Economics, 1989. BT157 .B326
Barker, William S., and W. Robert Godfrey. Theonomy: A Reformed Critique. Grand Rapids: Academie, 1990.
BT82.25 .T44
Barron, Bruce. Heaven on Earth? The Social and Political Agendas of Dominion Theology. Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 1992. BS658 .H26
Dumbrell, William J. Covenant and Creation: A Theology of Old Testament Covenants. Nashville: Thomas
Nelson, 1984. BS1199.C6 D85

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Gentry, Kenneth L. God’s Law in the Modern World: The Continuing Relevance of Old Testament Law.
Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1993. BT127.7 .B34
Gentry, Peter J., and Stephen J. Wellum. Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of
the Covenants. Wheaton: Crossway, 2012. BS680.C67 G46
House, Wayne H., and Thomas Ice. Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? (An Analysis of Christian
Reconstructionism). Portland: Multnomah, 1988. BT891 .H6
Mayes, A. D. H., and Robert B. Salters, editors. Covenant as Context: Essays in Honour of E. W. Nicholson. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2003. BS680.C67 W55
McGlasson, Paul. No! A Theological Response to Christian Reconstructionism. Eugene, Oreg.: Cascade, 2012.
BT82.25 .M29
McVicar, Michael J. Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism. Chapel
Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. [Available online through Turpin Library.]
Williamson, Paul R. Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose. Downers Grove: InterVarsity,
2007. BS680.C67 W55

Beckwith, Roger T. “The Unity and Diversity of God’s Covenant.” TynBul 38 (1987): 93–118.
Busenitz, Irvin A. “Introduction to the Biblical Covenants; The Noahic Covenant and the Priestly Covenant.”
TMSJ 10 (1999): 173–89.
Chismar, Douglas E., and David A. Rausch. “Regarding Theonomy: An Essay of Concern.” JETS 27 (1984): 315–
23.
Dumbrell, William J. “The Covenant with Noah.” RTR 38 (1979): 1–9.
Gilders, William K. “Blood and Covenant: Interpretive Elaboration on Genesis 9:4–6 in the Book of Jubilees.” J.
Study of the Pseudepigrapha 15 (2006): 83–118.
Gordon, T. David. “Critique of Theonomy: A Taxonomy.” WTJ 56 (1994): 23–43.
Hiebert, Theodore. “Rethinking Dominion Theology.” Direction 25 (1996): 16–25.
Jeon, Jeong Koo. “The Noahic Covenants and the Kingdom of God.” MAJT 24 (2013): 179–209.
Lightner, Robert P. “Theological Perspectives on Theonomy Part 1: Theonomy and Dispensationalism.” BSac
143 (1986): 26–36.
Lightner, Robert P. “Theological Perspectives on Theonomy Part 2: Nondispensational Responses to
Theonomy.” BSac 143 (1986): 134–45.
Lightner, Robert P. “Theological Perspectives on Theonomy Part 3: A Dispensational Response to Theonomy.”
BSac 143 (1986): 228–45.
Oss, Douglas A. “The Influence of Hermeneutical Frameworks in the Theonomy Debate.” WTJ 51 (1989): 227–
58.
VanDrunen, David. “The Protectionist Purpose of Law: A Moral Case from the Biblical Covenant with Noah. J.
Society of Christian Ethics 35 (2015): 101–117.

Death Penalty
Banner, Stuart. The Death Penalty: An American History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. [Available
online through Turpin Library]
Bedau, Hugo Adam. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press,
1997. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Bedau, Hugo Adam, and Paul G. Cassell. Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment?
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Garland, David, Randall McGowen, and Michael Meranze. America’s Death Penalty: Between Past and Present.
New York: New York University Press, 2011. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Harland, P. J. The Value of Human Life: A Study of the Story of the Flood (Genesis 6–9). Leiden: Brill, 1996. BS658
.H26
House, H. Wayne, and John Howard Yoder. The Death Penalty Debate. Dallas, Tex.: Word, 1991. HV8694 .H68
Owens, Erik C., John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain, editors. Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for
Reckoning. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. HV8694 .R45

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Pojman, Louis P., and Jeffrey H. Reiman. The Death Penalty: For and Against. Latham, Md.: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1998. [Available online through Turpin Library]

Ballard, Bruce. “The Death Penalty: God’s Timeless Standard for the Nations?” JETS 43 (2000): 471–87.
Bakon, Shimon. “Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law.” JBQ 42 (2014): 173–
77.
Belousek, Darrin W. Snyder. “Capital Punishment, Covenant Justice, and the Cross of Christ: The Death Penalty
in the Life and Death of Jesus.” The Mennonite Quarterly Rev. 83 (2009): 375–402.
Bottum, Joseph. “Christians and the Death Penalty.” First Things 155 (2005): 17–21.
Frame, Randall L. “A Matter of Life and Death.” Christianity Today 39 (1995): 50–52.
Gudorf, Christine E. “Christianity and Opposition to the Death Penalty: Late Modern Shifts.” Dialog 52 (2013):
99–109.
Gushee, David P., Richard D. Land, and Glen Harold Stassen. “Honoring Life: How Biblical Is it to Be Pro-Life
and Support the Death Penalty?” Christianity Today 56 (2012): 42–43.
James, Stephen A. “The Adulteress and the Death Penalty.” JETS 22 (1979): 45–53.
Neff, David. “Executing Justice?” The U.S. Standards for the Death Penalty are Far Below the Old Testament
Law.” Christianity Today 58 (2014): 26.

Biblical Genealogies
Aufrecht, Walter E. Genealogy and History in Ancient Israel. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988.
Greenstein, Edward L. “Genealogy as a Code in Genesis.” Pages 102–105. New York: Modern Language
Association of America, 1989. BS535 .A6
Johnson, Marshall D. The Purpose of the Biblical Genealogies: With Special Reference to the Setting of the
Genealogies of Jesus. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969. BS569 .J6
Sparks, James T. The Chronicler’s Genealogies: Towards an Understanding of 1 Chronicles 1–9. Atlanta: SBL,
2008. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Wilson, Robert R. Genealogy and History in the Biblical World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. BS569
.W54

Alexander, T. Desmond. “Genealogies, Seed and the Compositional Unity of Genesis.” TynBul 44 (1993): 255–
70.
Bryan, David T. “A Reevaluation of Gen 4 and 5 in Light of Recent Studies in Genealogical Fluidity.” ZAW 99
(1987): 180–88.
Darshan, Guy. “The Biblical Account of the Post-Diluvian Generation (Gen. 9:20–10:32) in the Light of Greek
Genealogical Literature.” VT 63 (2013): 515–35.
Hartman, Thomas C. “Some Thoughts on the Sumerian King List and Genesis 5 and 11B.” JBL 91 (1972): 25–32.
Hasel, Gerhard F. “Genealogies of Gen 5 and 11 and Their Alleged Babylonian Background.” AUSS 16 (1978):
361–74.
Hess, Richard S. “Lamech in the Genealogies of Genesis.” BBR 1 (1991): 21–25.
Hess, Richard S. “The Genealogies of Genesis 1–11 and Comparative Literature.” Bib 70 (1989): 241–54.
Larsson, Gerhard. “The Chronology of the Pentateuch: A Comparison of the MT and LXX.” JBL 102 (1983):
401–409.
Mathews, K. A. “Preaching Old Testament Genealogies.” Preaching 5 (1989): 7–12.
Oded, Bustenay. “The Table of Nations (Genesis 10): A Socio-Cultural Approach.” ZAW 98 (1986): 14–31.
Plum, Karin Friis. “Genealogy as Theology.” SJOT 1 (1989): 66–92.
Prewitt, Terry J. “Kinship Structures and the Genesis Genealogies.” JNES 40 )1981): 87–98.
Rendsburg, Gary A. “The Internal Consistency and Historical Reliability of the Biblical Genealogies.” VT 40
(1990): 185–206.
Robinson, Robert B. “Literary Functions of the Genealogies of Genesis.” CBQ 48 (1986): 595–608.

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Ross, Allen P. “Studies in the Book of Genesis, Part 2: The Table of Nations in Genesis 10: Its Structure.” BSac
137 (1980): 340–53.
Spero, Shubert. “Ten Generations from Adam to Noah versus Ten Generations from Noah to Abraham.” JBQ 39
(2011): 165–68.
Wilson, Robert R. “Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research.” JBL 94 (1975): 169–89.

Clark, H. David. “The Genealogies of Genesis Five and Eleven.” Th.D. dissertation. Dallas Theological Seminary,
1967. BS1235.2 .C55 1967
Shaw, Benjamin. “The Genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 and Their Significance for Chronology.” Ph.D.
dissertation. Bob Jones University, 2004. [Available online through Turpin Library]

Human Race: Origins, Issues

Felder, Cain Hope. Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives: Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. BS661 .F44
Figart, Thomas O. A Biblical Perspective on the Race Problem. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1973. BT734 .F5
Goldenberg, David M. The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2003. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Hays, Daniel L. From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2003.
BT734 .H39
Hopkins, Dwight. Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005. BT82.7 .H655
Jennings, Willie James. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2010. BT734.2 .J46
Noll, Mark A. God and Race in American Politics: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
E185 .N65
Priest, Robert J., and Alvaro L. Nieves, editors. This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2007. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Sadler, Rodney Steven. Can A Cushite Change His Skin? An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Othering in the
Hebrew Bible. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2005. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Sechrest, Love L. A Former Jew: Paul and the Dialectics of Race. LNTS 410. London: T. & T. Clark, 2009.
BS2650.52 .S43
Sussman, Robert W. The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2014. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Whitford, David M. The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era: The Bible and the Justifications for Slavery.
Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2009. HT915 .W45

Buell, Denise Kimber, and Caroline Johnson Hodge. “The Politics of Interpretation: The Rhetoric of Race and
Ethnicity in Paul.” JBL 123 (2004): 235–51.
Fong, Bruce W. “Addressing the Issue of Racial Reconciliation According to the Principles of Eph 2:11–22.”
JETS 38 (1995): 565–80.
Stanley, Christopher D. “‘Neither Jew nor Greek’: Ethnic Conflict in Graeco-Roman Society.” JSNT 64 (1996):
101–24.

Origins of Language
Altmann, Garry T. M. The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Beaken, Mike. The Making of Language. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic, 2011. [Available online through Turpin
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Hodge, Bodie. Tower of Babel: The Cultural History of our Ancestors. Green Forest, Ark.: Master, 2013. [Available
online through Turpin Library]
MacNeilage, Peter F. The Origin of Speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. [Available online through
Turpin Library]

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McWhorter, John H. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language. New York: Times Books, 2001. P140
.M34
Oller, John W., and John L. Omdah. “Origin of the Human Language Capacity: In Whose Image?” Pages 235–69
in The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer. Edited by J. P. Moreland.
Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 1994. BS651 .C6926
Sherman, Phillip Michael. Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation. Boston: Brill,
2013. [Available online through Turpin Library]
Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
[Available online through Turpin Library]

Davis, Jud. “Acts 2 and the Old Testament: The Pentecost Event in Light of Sinai, Babel and the Table of
Nations.” CTR NS 7 (2009): 29–48.
González, Catherine Gunsalus, and González, Justo L. “Babel and Empire: Pentecost and Empire: Preaching on
Genesis 11:1–9 and Acts 2:1–2. J. for Preachers 16 (1993): 22–26.
Hiebert, Theodore. “The Tower of Babel and the Origin of the World’s Cultures.” JBL 126 (2007): 29–58.
Hock, Andreas. “From Babel to the New Jerusalem (Gen 11,1–9 and Rev 21,1–22,5).” Bib 89 (2008): 109–118.
Klingbeil, Gerald A. “‘He Spoke and It Was’: Human Language, Divine Creation, and the Imago Dei.” HorBT 36
(2014): 42–59.
Moyaert, Marianne. “A ‘Babelfish’ World (Genesis 11:1–9) and Its Challenge to Cultural-Linguistic Theory.”
Horizons 36 (2009): 215–34.
Oller, John W. “Languages and Genes: Can They Be Built up Through Random Change and Natural Selection?”
J. of Psychology and Theology 30 (2001): 26–40.
Penley, Paul T. “A Historical Reading of Genesis 11:1–9: The Sumerian Demise and Dispersion Under the Ur III
Dynasty.” JETS 50 (2007): 693–714.
Smith, David. “What Hope After Babel? Diversity and Community in Gen 11:1–9; Exod 1:1–14; Zeph 3:1–13
and Acts 2:1–3. HorBT 18 (1996): 169–91.
Yovel, Jonathan. “The Creation of Language and Language Without Time: Metaphysics and Metapragmatics in
Genesis 1.” BibInt 20 (2012): 205–25.

God’s Choice of Israel

Bateman, Herbert W., editor. Three Central Issues in Contemporary Dispensationalism: A Comparism of
Traditional and Progressive Views. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999. BT157 .T57
Bock, Darrell L., and Craig A. Blaising. Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: The Search for Definition.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992. BT157 .D57
Brand, Chad, Tom Pratt, Robert L. Reymond, Robert L. Saucy, and Robert L. Thomas. Perspectives on Israel and
the Church: Four Views. Nashville: B. & H., 2015. BM535 .B6724
Fruchtenbaum, Arnold G. Israelology: The Missing Link in Systematic Theology. Tustin, Calif.: Ariel, 1993.
BS649.J5 F78
Kaiser, Walter C. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012.
[Available online through Turpin Library]
Poythress, Vern S. Understanding Dispensationalists. Grand Rapids: Academie, 1987. BT157 .P68
Vlach, Michael J. Has the Church Replaced Israel? Nashville: B. & H. Academic, 2010. BM535 .V533

Brewer, David Instone. “Three Weddings and a Divorce: God’s Covenant with Israel, Judah and the Church.
TynBul 47 (1996): 1–25.
Crutchfield, Larry V. “Ages and Dispensations in the Ante-Nicene Fathers.” BSac 144 (1987): 377–99.
Crutchfield, Larry V. “Israel and the Church in the Ante-Nicene Fathers.” BSac 144 (1987): 254–76.
Getty, Mary Ann. “Paul and the Salvation of Israel: A Perspective on Romans 9–11.” CBQ 50 (1988): 456–69.
Longenecker, Bruce W. “On Israel’s God and God’s Israel: Assessing Supersessionism in Paul.” JTS NS 58 (2007):
26–44.

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Riccardi, Michael. “The Seed of Abraham: A Theological Analysis of Galatians 3 and Its Implications for Israel.”
TMSJ 25 (2014): 51–64.
Thomas, Robert L. “Dispensationalism’s Role in the Public Square.” TMSJ 20 (2009): 19–40.
Vanlaningham, Michael G. “An Evaluation of N. T. Wright’s View of Israel in Romans 11.” BSac 170 (2013):
179–93.

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