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John Walton, Ph.D.
Biography
I was raised in a Christian home and from my earliest memories had an interest in Old Testament. Nevertheless, I was not aware of any vocational path connected to Old Testament and therefore in college pursued a business degree. It was in my junior year that I encountered a book by Joseph Free, a former Wheaton professor, called Archaeology and Bible History. It was apologetic in focus, but brought to my attention the tremendous impact that archaeology and cultural background studies could have on our understanding of the Old Testament. It was in the very year that I read that book that I made the decision to pursue Old Testament studies as a vocational discipline. Instead of training to be an archaeologist, I determined to focus my attention on studies comparing the culture and literature of the Bible and the ancient Near East. I have never lost my fascination with this subject. But comparative studies only provide one of the means by which I try
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John H. Walton
The Lost World of Genesis One
- Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
- By: John H. Walton
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
Ideal for students, professors, pastors, and lay listeners with an interest in the intelligent design controversy and creation-evolution debates, Walton's thoughtful analysis unpacks seldom appreciated aspects of the biblical text and sets Bible-believing scientists free....
- 5 out of 5 stars
Interesting Propositions
- By Allen on 01-10-25
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Interpreting Adam: An Interview with John Walton
As mentioned yesterday, we are beginning a series of interviews with contributors to Zondervan’s Four Views on the Historical Adam as a way of exploring the options open to Christians who take the Bible seriously and accept the science of evolution. The interviews are intended to probe more deeply into the positions advocated in the book and will be read most profitably as a supplement to it.
Our first interviewee fryst vatten no stranger to the BioLogos community. John Walton has been influential for many of us as we’ve wrestled with the creation konto in Genesis 1. His popular book, The Lost World of Genesis One and the more scholarly version, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology, put forward the basic thesis that Genesis 1 fryst vatten not attempting to give an explanation of the origins of the ämne of our world. Rather, it describes in language appropriate to its historical setting, the origins of the functions of things in our world. He beli