Exegetical Analysis on Book of Genesis 2:4-25
I. Introduction
In the beginning, when God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth had no form and was void; darkness was over the deep and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
In the same way, our group wants to show light on the second chapter of the Book of Genesis. This paper would serve as an instrument in further understanding the passage through biblical criticism. We would utilize several approaches. Hermeneutics is the first approace. This is the theory of reading, interpretation, and understanding of a text whether written or serving as documents. It answers the question: what is the text saying to us today. Second is textual criticism, which aims to reconstruct what actually is the "original text" on the basis of many different copies. Historical criticism is third, which attempts to understand the political structures, religious and cultural events and institutions of the time and place of the writing of a given biblical book. Biblical authors drew both their imagery and their thought patterns from the setting to which they lived. It attempts to verify the historicity and understand the meaning of an event that is said to have taken place in the past. The basis for the evaluation is the tools of historical science. The historical-critical method assumes the autonomy of the human scientist from the Bible as the word of God. It assumes that one must start with the secular world as a norm for determining meaning and for deciding what has happened in the past.
Fourth is source criticism. This attempts to establish the sources which a given biblical writer may have used in compiling his work in order to resolve existing discrepancies and inconsistencies. It attempts to determine whether or not there is a unity or compositional in character. It also attempts to determine the nature of the sources used and the stages of composition. The setting within which the sources emerged
In the beginning, when God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth had no form and was void; darkness was over the deep and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
In the same way, our group wants to show light on the second chapter of the Book of Genesis. This paper would serve as an instrument in further understanding the passage through biblical criticism. We would utilize several approaches. Hermeneutics is the first approace. This is the theory of reading, interpretation, and understanding of a text whether written or serving as documents. It answers the question: what is the text saying to us today. Second is textual criticism, which aims to reconstruct what actually is the "original text" on the basis of many different copies. Historical criticism is third, which attempts to understand the political structures, religious and cultural events and institutions of the time and place of the writing of a given biblical book. Biblical authors drew both their imagery and their thought patterns from the setting to which they lived. It attempts to verify the historicity and understand the meaning of an event that is said to have taken place in the past. The basis for the evaluation is the tools of historical science. The historical-critical method assumes the autonomy of the human scientist from the Bible as the word of God. It assumes that one must start with the secular world as a norm for determining meaning and for deciding what has happened in the past.
Fourth is source criticism. This attempts to establish the sources which a given biblical writer may have used in compiling his work in order to resolve existing discrepancies and inconsistencies. It attempts to determine whether or not there is a unity or compositional in character. It also attempts to determine the nature of the sources used and the stages of composition. The setting within which the sources emerged