The Creation Mandate to “be fruitful and multiply”: A crux of thematic repetition in Genesis 1–11

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" The Creation Mandate to “be fruitful and multiply”: A crux of thematic repetition in Genesis 1–11 "
Andrew J. Schmutzer R. Averbeck

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54486
Doc. No	:	TL24440
Call number	:	‭3207872‬
Main Entry	:	Andrew J. Schmutzer
Title & Author	:	The Creation Mandate to “be fruitful and multiply”: A crux of thematic repetition in Genesis 1–11\ Andrew J. Schmutzer
College	:	Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Date	:	2005
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2005
Page No	:	453
Abstract	:	The Mandate represents more than commands, and blessing defines more than fertility. Five texts were studied (Gen 1:22, 28, 8:17, 9:1, 7) for their role within each text plot and their collective theological portrait. The Creation Mandate is God's functional blessing, most clearly seen in 1:28. Through the Creator's blessing, relationship and status are activated for both propagation (1.28a, enablement) and governance (1.28b, commission). The image of God is functional and vital to the Mandate (1:26-27), granting royal authorization for a rule of creation stewardship as God's "under-kings." Key terms employed in the Mandate to Adam and Noah merge the national/political horizons of Israel with the historical/cosmic horizon of creation. The very ethos of Israel's conquest borrows theological language such as "rule" and "subdue" (1:28), moving it into the international theatre as "fear and terror" with "into your hand they are given" (9:2). The language of holy war functions within the cosmic context, even as blessing is fulfilled in Egypt (Exod 1:7).
Subject	:	Philosophy, religion and theology; Be fruitful and multiply; Creation Mandate; Genesis (book of); Thematic repetition; Bible; Theology; 0321:Bible; 0469:Theology
Added Entry	:	R. Averbeck
Added Entry	:	Trinity Evangelical Divinity School