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Rick Wadholm has kindly allowed me to post a PDF of his Master’s Thesis<\/a> “The Theological Meaning and Significance of Yom <\/i>in Genesis 1″. Wadholm argues that when we come to interpreting “Yom” we seldom get any further than arguing whether the “days” are literal or figurative. While this [in my opinion] is not unimportant, the text has far more to teach us than just\u00a0chronology. Wadholm compares the Genesis account with other accounts of creation from the ANE and concludes that Genesis is\u00a0unlike any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Wadholm has kindly allowed me to post a PDF of his Master’s Thesis “The Theological Meaning and Significance of Yom in Genesis 1″. Wadholm argues that when we come to interpreting “Yom” we seldom get any further than arguing whether the “days” are literal or figurative. 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