The Lost World of Genesis One

Short review: A careful and compelling book about Genesis one story of creation. The main argument is that the creation story is not about the material creation, but the functional creation (for instance day 1 was about the creation of order in time, not the physical creation of light photons.) Walton (a professor at Wheaton and Moody Bible Institute, so not ‘liberal schools') is trying to show that the best reading of scripture is the one that takes into account what the author intended and what the original readers would have understood. He shows that ancient culture would have understood Gen 1 as the creation of the earth as a temple.

He think that the current creation/evolution debate that we are often concerned with, completely misses the point of what the author was trying to communicate. There are some weaknesses with the book, but it is highly readable and well worth the time.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/genesis-walton/