Evangelicalism's Search for Chronological Gaps in Genesis 5 and 11: A Historical, Hermeneutical and Linguistic Critique
Interpreters did not challenge the chronological intent of the Genesis genealogies until the ascendancy of Darwinism in the 1860s. Green’s article became the most famous attempt to disrupt the timeline. As a young scholar, Green had ardently defended the chronology, but prevailing scientific claims finally compelled him to abandon this conviction. Recent scholarship (as well as a censored article from the mid-1890s) has demonstrated that Green only showed the possibility of genealogical gaps, which do not entail chronological gaps. Steinmann bases his unprecedented argument for chronological gaps on an idiosyncratic semantics of causation (which he applies to the hiphil of ילד) that contradicts the consensus among Hebraists and other linguists.
Read the rest of Jeremy's article in PDF Format: Evangelicalism's Search
Sexton_JETS_61.1_Evangelicalism's_Search_for_Chronological_Gaps.pdf (301.50 kb)