Grappling with the Chronology of the Genesis Flood: Navigating the Flow of Time in Biblical Narrative.
Editors: Steven W. Boyd & Andrew A. Snelling.
Green Forest, AR : Master Books, 2014.
xxv, 828 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes indexes.
“A research initiative of the Cataclysm Chronology Research Group”
ISBN: 9780890517093, 0890517096.
Price: $39.99.
Master Books, PO Box 726, Green Forest, AR 72638. Publisher website.
Understand this highly debated flashpoint for scientific debate, academic criticism, and common confusion with this unique presentation.
Delve into the technical aspects of the chronology, historicity, and significance of understanding this landmark event, including what we can learn from the Hebrew words used to describe it. Examine the numerous geological, geophysical, and paleontological indications pointing to the reality and global scope of the Flood.
Learn how and why the authors’ exhaustive research began, putting forth objectives, criticisms they would address, and identifying obstacles to be resolved.
The Flood as described in the Book of Genesis not only shaped the global landscape, it is an event that literally forms our understanding of early biblical history. Now an experienced team of scientists and theologians has written a definitive account of the Genesis Flood with detailed research into the original biblical text and evidences unlocked by modern science and study.
Often recounted and discounted as just a myth or children’s story, what we find with deeper study is instead a cataclysmic event, one that truly wiped out life on our planet with the exception of those preserved through God’s plan. The devastation the Genesis Flood wreaked upon a rebellious world remains an important part of the biblical narrative we should understand for what it was – a divine act of judgment on a sin-immersed world.
Table of contents
Forewords, Eugene Merrill and John Morris. p. ix.
Preface, Steven W. Boyd. p. xiii.
Acknowledgments. p. xix.
General Abbreviations & Technical-Term Conventions. p. xxiii.
PART I. CHARTING THE COURSE: INTRODUCTION
1. Destination Specified and Challenges Identified: Research Objectives and Obstacles, The Editors. p. 3.
2. The Profit of the Venture: The Significance of Flood Chronology, The Editors. p. 13.
PART II. TAKING OUR BEARINGS: RELEVANT ISSUES
First Section. Rough Seas: Issues of Text and Time
3. Treacherous Waters: The Necessity for a New Approach, Steven W. Boyd, Thomas L. Stroup, Drew G. Longacre, Kai M. Akagi, and Lee A. Anderson Jr. p. 29.
4. Adjusting our Heading: Delineating the New Approach, Steven W. Boyd, Thomas L. Stroup, Drew G. Longacre, Kai M. Akagi, and Lee A. Anderson Jr. p. 43.
Second Section. Gale Warnings: Geological, Geophysical and Paleontological Issues
5. Geological Issues, Andrew A. Snelling. p. 77.
6. Geophysical Issues, Andrew A. Snelling. p. 111.
7. Paleontological Issues, Andrew A. Snelling. p. 145.
PART III. THE VOYAGE BEGINS: INVESTIGATION
First Section: Weighing Anchor: Chronological Scenarios and Text
8. Waves of Opinion: The Chronology of the Flood in Literature Past and Present, Lee A. Anderson Jr. p. 189.
9. Charting the Textual Waters: Textual Issues in the Chronology of the Genesis Flood Narrative, Drew G. Longacre. p. 231.
Second Section. Getting Under Way: Ascertaining Temporal Sequentiality in Narrative
10. The Charybdis of Morphology: The Sequentiality of Wayyiqtol? Thomas L. Stroup. p. 299
11. The Verbal Tiller: Lexical Semantics of Verbs as a Factor in Sequentiality—Temporal Progression at the Micro-level, Kai M. Akagi. p. 365.
12. Tacking with the Text: The Interconnection of Text, Event, and Time at the Macro-level, Steven W. Boyd. p. 445
13. Reading the Literary Currents: The Complexity of Hebrew Narrative and Modes of Discourse—Temporal Progression at the Mega-level, Thomas L. Stroup. p.609.
PART IV. BATTENING DOWN THE HATCHES: PREPARATION FOR APPLICATION TO THE FLOOD NARRATIVE
14. Sounding the Structural Depths: Theme Tracing and the Segmentation of the Narrative, Lee A. Anderson Jr. p. 639.
15. Navigation Points in Text: Methodological and Linguistic Preliminaries for the Study of the Semantic, Syntactic and Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of ??????? in Biblical Hebrew Narrative, Drew G. Longacre. p. 705.
PART V. ON THE HIGH SEAS: SUMMATION, APPLICATION, EXPECTATIONS
16. The View from Aloft, Steven W. Boyd, Andrew A. Snelling, Thomas L. Stroup, Drew G. Longacre, Kai M. Akagi, and Lee A. Anderson Jr. p. 741.
Glossary. p. 757.
Indexes. p. 785.
Subject Index. p. 787.
Authorities Index. p. 805.
Scripture Index. p. 815.
