Cool Creation Quotes from Knierim by slaveofone
It is clear that when responding properly, humans accept what God says or does. They then transmit this content into, or actualize it in, their own existence and, hence, carry on God’s own work and word. Rather than doing what God does not do, they continue God’s own work by actualizing it. The actualization of God’s own work in the world is both the matrix of and the criterion for the Old Testament’s ethos.
Rolf Knierim,On the Task of Old Testament Theology, Reading the Hebrew Bible for a New Millenium: Form, Concept and Theological Perspective, p.32
The Yahwist considers human history as fallen out of paradise, the earthly sphere of the order of creation. In this consideration, paradise apparently means more than only the beginning of human history. It is the mirror of true reality, the reality of creation in view of which human history is evaluated. . . . Paradise may be lost as history. However, it is not lost as the constant reminder of the true place to which history belongs–creation–nor as the reminder of the fact that history is removed from creation, and not creation from history.
Rolf Knierim, The Task of Old Testament Theology: Substance, Methods, and Cases, p. 206