Jeremiah
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- 1:5 — Literal and Figurative Creation in the Bible
- 3:2-3— Theistic Meteorology (analogous to Theistic Evolution)
- 4:23-24 — tohu and bohu; theophanic imagery
- 5:22 — The Primal Sea
- 5:24— Theistic Meteorology
- 10:9 — beaten silver plates — Hebrew רָקַע (raqa) cognate with "raqia" (The Firmament).
- 10:10-12 — a Creation Record and curse on Mesopotamian gods that have not made the heavens and earth
- 11:20 — The Language of the Bible with Reference to Natural Things
- 14:22— Theistic Meteorology
- 17:9 — The Heart can be "deceitful" — in Biblical thought it is where tricky thinking occurs
- 18:1-6 — The Metaphor of God as Potter — Israel as clay in the potter's hand
- 23:16-22 — possible echo of Divine Council
- 24:2 — meaning of "very good"
- 24:7 — "knowing" in The Heart in Bible language
- 27:1 — Bereshith in construct form - Rashi on Genesis 1:1
- 28:1 — Bereshith in construct form - cited to counter Rashi's understanding of Genesis 1:1
- 31:11 — nephesh
- 31:29-30 — collective and individual responsibility
- 31:35 — a Creation Record. Relevant to objections to evolution based on Thermodynamics.
- 31:37 — Heliocentrism in the Bible
- 33:25 — Merism
- 51:15 — the sky stretched out as a tent
- 51:34,44 — a Creation Record — the Tannin