John Walton’s Lost World Series: An Assessment - Caleb Howard

Since 2009, the Old Testament scholar John Walton has produced a series of short books for laypeople which assert the existence of a “lost world” behind key parts of the Old Testament, including "The Lost World of Genesis One", "The Lost World of Scripture" (co-authored with D. Brent Sandy), "The Lost World of Adam and Eve", "The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest" (co-authored with J. Harvey Walton), "The Lost World of the Flood" (co-authored with Tremper Longman III), "The Lost World of Torah" (co-authored with J. Harvey Walton), "The Lost World of the Prophets", and, most recently, "New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis". For Walton, this lost world, a historical-conceptual background reconstructed from extrabiblical literature, is essential for understanding the Old Testament. This presentation evaluates Walton’s arguments, especially in his books dealing with Genesis, and offers a critique, from the point of view of ancient Near Eastern literature and biblical exegesis.

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