Creation and The Dead Sea Scrolls

Dr. Jeremy Lyon joins Todd and Paul again as they discuss the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls in how we interpret Genesis and the Creation account.
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About our Guest:

Dr. Jeremy Lyon is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Truett McConnel University in Cleveland, GA. He has written two books on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

📕Find his books on Amazon:
The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls
https://shorturl.at/bFILW
Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood
https://shorturl.at/nuX13

16:22 Episode on the Gap Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DRSPx2NW1c
17:25 Barr, James. The Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 1981, pp. 471–72. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23959376. Accessed 11 Aug. 2022.

18:43 The Book of Jubilees- An ancient non-biblical retelling of Genesis which emphasizes time passing in 50 year intervals corresponding to the Levitical year of Jubilee. The Book of Jubilees gives us insight into ancient interpretations of Genesis.

http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/jubilees/index.htm

Dead Sea Scroll fragments of the Book of Jubilees can be found here.
https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/manuscript/1Q17-1

24:42 4Q504 Dibre Hame'orot or Words of the Luminaries
https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/manuscript/4Q504-1?locale=en_US

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