We'll build this review from Chad Macintosh's, a little more positive.

He titled his article, Bad Time for a Good Book.

Let's find out why he thinks that.

He writes, William Lane Craig embarks on a quest to answer two main questions.

First, does the Bible present them as real historical persons or mere literary figures

used by biblical authors to illustrate theological truths?

Second, if they are real, Adam and Eve, historical persons, then is belief in this original

pair as the font of humanity in conflict with current science of human origins, where

the genre of Genesis straightforward historical narrative, the answer to the first question

would be settled.

But matters aren't so easy, according to Craig, Genesis 1 through 11 exhibits nearly

all of the hallmarks of the genre of myth, but we must be careful here.

As literary scholars use the term, a myth is not a popular idea or falsehood, but a traditional

sacred narrative, believed by members of a society, that explains present realities

by anchoring them in the prehistoric past.

Yet at the same time, historical interest is not absent from the author of Genesis as the

genealogies show.

Thus Craig thinks that Thorkeld Jacobson's genre of mytho history, a genre where real

historical events are narrated, but with non-literal literary devices used to communicate

theological truths, is therefore an apt classification of Genesis, popular aversions

to the word myth, notwithstanding, and that's the end of the quote there Bill, I think

that's a pretty good thumbnail of the book.

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