Enns, Peter, 2012- The Evolution of Adam

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Why This Book?

“Science and Faith” or “Evolution and Christianity”?

Overview of the Book

Part One: Genesis: An Ancient Story of Israelite Self-Definition

1. Genesis and the Challenges of the Nineteenth Century: Science, Biblical Criticism, and Biblical Archaeology
2. When Was Genesis Written?
   • The Problem of the Pentateuch
   • Two Early Examples
   • God Has Two Names
   • Wellhausen and a Postexilic Pentateuch
   • The Old Testament, the Exile, and Israel’s Self-Definition
   • The Creation Story and the Church’s Self-Definition
3. Stories of Origins from Israel’s Neighbors
   • Genre Calibration
   • Genesis 1 and Enuma Elish
   • Genesis 1 and Monolatry
   • The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Atrahasis
   • Israel’s Second Creation Story
   • Adam and Atrahasis
   • Reorienting Expectations of Genesis and Human Origins
4. Israel and Primordial Time
   • Israel and the Cosmic Battle
   • Adam and Israel
   • Creation and Sanctuary
   • The Gospel and Primordial Time

Part Two: Understanding Paul’s Adam

5. Paul’s Adam and the Old Testament
   • Doesn’t Paul Settle the Matter?
   • Not Paul’s Adam
   • Adam and Wisdom
6. Paul as an Ancient Interpreter of the Old Testament
   • Paul as an Ancient Man
   • Interpreting the Bible after the Exile
   • Various Adams of Jewish Interpreters
   • Paul and His Bible
   • Paul and His Interpreted Bible
7. Paul’s Adam
   • Paul’s Adam: The Historical First Man, Responsible for Universal Sin and Death
   • Sin and Death without Adam?
   • The One People of God
   • The Solution Reveals the Plight
   • Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Subject Index

Scripture Index

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