Tuesday, May 28, 2024

W. G. Lambert: Genesis 1 does not teach Creation Ex Nihilo


In the biblical account, creation was arguably not ex nihilo but used the primordial waters (תהוֹם) as material.


W. G. Lambert, "Creation in the Bible and the Ancient Near East," in A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis, ed. JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2013), 51