The Creation of the World. In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
Category: OLD TESTAMENT
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK GENESIS
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK GENESIS
The name is the Greek word for “beginning,” and was selected by the translators of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. This version was known as the Septuagint (frequently indicated by LXX), because it was said the translators numbered seventy men. It was made for the Jews of “the Dispersion” dwelling in Egypt and elsewhere, who had become unfamiliar with the language of their fathers.
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
“For us the supreme sanction of the Old Testament is that which it derived from Christ Himself. . . . What was indispensable to the Redeemer must always be indispensable to the redeemed.”
—Professor G. A. Smith