Genesis—What Genre Is It?
Answers with Ken Ham
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How should we interpret Genesis chapters one through eleven? Is it history, mythology, allegory, or symbolic poetry?
This is Ken Ham, author of the new devotional commentary on Genesis, Creation to Babel.
How should we interpret Genesis chapters one through eleven? Is it history, mythology, allegory, or symbolic poetry?
Many Christians struggle with this question. But it’s not because the text isn’t clear. It’s because so many want to fit evolution and millions of years into the Bible.
The text itself is clear that Genesis is history. The early chapters, one through eleven, read the same as the rest of the book. There’s no “genre switch” between creation, the flood, Babel, and then the accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. The whole book is a book of history!
As we’ll see this week, the testimony of all Scripture is that Genesis is history.
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