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A Dutch professor is creating some waves:
Source (dutch)
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Source (dutch)
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All translations, comments and study say the same: the bible starts creation with god. Wrongly, professor thinks Ellen van Wolde. „God are not the inventor. God created the sky and the ground. How differing Dutch bible translations are also, in the reproduction of the first words of the bible are them striking unanimous. And nevertheless are possible Wolde that opening sense no longer, find Ellen van.
Because god did not create. Van Wolde (1954) pronounces afternoon its oration; since beginning this year has worked she as professor interpretation of the Old Testament for the Radboud university in Nijmegen. She hopes that its findings cause a firm debate. Because its conclusions concerning the ouverture of the bible book genesis are not only new, but touch also the heart of many believers. „The traditional picture of god the inventor is intolerable. Moreover Van Wolde still a familiar element obtains from Jewish-Christian theology from under. „The monotheistic picture of the one god, who is not correct.
There is talk of a god collection, with gods and oppergod. The title of its inaugural reason to the begin' is ambiguous. „In the beginning are the Jew title of genesis, and want start Van Wolde again at its overstap of the university of Tilburg to those of Nijmegen as text outrigger. In its reason she has incorporated, very uncommon, a credo, an academic credo: „I believe in uninhibited read and live, in always start again, in yourself empty of earlier conceptions, each time again everything as new it to perceive. Van Wolde: „I want something select without having the judgement already ready, without laying the mal of the tradition on the text. Thus she ran up against the opening feathers of the bible book on which she went up ever.
Preciezer: On the verb bara. That means according to everyone scheppen', but for Van Wolde that translation no longer satisfied. „It was not correct simply. At the verb god the subject was (god created…, followed by always two or more suffering voorwerpen'. why god did not create one thing or animal, but always several? Because, determined Van Wolde, god did not create, but separated. The ground of the sky, the country of the sea, the sea monsters of the birds and the gekrioel on the ground. „There was therefore already water, there were already sea monsters. God does not make sometimes the something, but sky and the ground. The usual idea of scheppen-uit-niets, creatio ex nihilo, are a large misunderstanding. That hypothese was, as Van Wolde says it, my first spark, in June 2008, in my studeerkamer'. the second spark followed in the autumn. „I said against mezelf: that can you, however, think that god can scheidde', but the priest writers of the Old Testament instead of creating scheiden' has meant? Were appropriate that in their world view? Van Wolde wondered himself still something. „Why I would be the first which gets truth in a lot of centuries text explanation above table? Van Wolde gives himself the answer. „I am possible that because there for me as a research worker resources now so many available is.
Dictionaries, and analysis methods to forget: new expenditure of knife texts. Older had been still stamped by the biblical conceptions of the scientists. Now that science has emancipated, let us get we improve insight in those texts. And from that appears that also in other creation tales from the Near East god-driven separates the sky of the ground. To Dutch profession-enjoyed Van Wolde still has given up nothing (say it is this way nice: I come in with something, and then at zwijgen'), on the international forum she has the first responses already, however. „Over two weeks appear the Journal or the Study or the Old will. There specialists have read it, they found it renewing and persuading. They wanted publish it rapidly. It becomes opening Article - a ereplaats in that Journal. How have people been created? Then enters Van Wolde in its study extended. „Let people make our, stand there. Van Wolde: „God and the gods have been involved in making people who existed up to at that moment not yet. For that make a another verb has been used, asa. That much scheppen'. mean but once people there is, god goes scheiden'. therefore not: God people created as its spitting image (NBV), but: „God made a separation between people who are its picture and itself and he made a separation between male and female. In its book Van Wolde explores an intriguing passage in a another bible book, of the prophet Jesaja, concerning god whom it slightly and obscurity, peace and it makes angry. „This have caused large problems in biblical theology, from Calvijn up to present, because here would stand that god himself has created obscurity and it angry. According to Van Wolde god not the author of obscurity and it is angry, but the one which „slightly form it and of obscurity separate, peace makes and of angry separates.
What is the impact of Van Wolde remarkable ideas? „A god as omnipotent, the inventor who makes everything with an aim, demand new doordenking, say them carefully. More positively she is concerning the picture which has strongly occupied Christian philosophy, which of god as an inventor from nothing, as the first veroorzaker of everything. „Which proposition has been falsified. Van Wolde compares the possible far-reaching impact of its text interpretation in theology with the insight that Charles Darwin acquired step by step.
„Still started it with a first point of doubt, in 1842, then he god for inventor kept, but saw that there was a variety to types. Gradually Darwin dared already more far-reaching draw conclusions. All gedoe in this drone winning years concerning creation or evolution, with as curious peak signing by Andries Knevel of a declaration in which he said good-bye to the creationisme, takes off Van Wolde laughings. „Poor Knevel. All that fight for nothing are, because god is not at all the inventor of sky and ground. The oudtestamentica realise themselves that its findings painful can be for believers which nourish correctly that inventor. „Perhaps staircase I mezelf, however, on the heart. I consider themselves as believer, and that inventor was me dear, as an idea of faith. That wants keep faith I.
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Will have to catch it when it next appears.
