Creatio ex nihilo in Palestinian Judaism and early Christianity
Recent decades have witnessed a near-consensus of critical opinion (1) that the idea of God's creation of matter 'out of nothing' is not affirmed in scripture, but instead (2) originated in a second-century Christian reaction against Gnosticism's convictions about matter as evil...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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