Creation in Six Days

A Defense of the Traditional Reading of Genesis Oneby James Jordan Commentators offer a lot of strange opinions on the events of Genesis 1. Jordan shows how the straightforward reading is the only tenable one.Creation in Six Days offers an exegetical, literary, and theological defense of the traditional interpretation of the Genesis account of six-day creation. Jordan offers a constructive reading of the early parts of Genesis and shows that people are attracted to the Framework Interpretation and similar views, not because of reasonable exegesis, but because of a faith in modern science. Jordan's account is primarily designed to answer several prominent critiques of the text of Genesis, such as the increasingly popular Framework Hypothesis, that pits the text's literary features against its historical and narrative sense.What People Are Saying:"This new book by James Jordan addresses with precision, charity, and biblical fidelity the strange and confusing situation amongst evangelical