Ecce Homo: Human Origins and Human Dignity in Genesis and Job
Presenter Status
Professor of Bible & Religion
Location
Biology Amphitheater, Price Hall 106
Start Date
28-10-2017 11:15 AM
End Date
28-10-2017 11:45 AM
Description
ABSTRACT
This paper will explore biblical images for the foundation of human nature and dignity. In particular the anthropocentric accounts of Genesis 1-3 will be brought into juxtaposition with the speeches of YHWH from the whirlwind in Job 38-41. Might the apparent diminution of humankind’s vicarious sovereignty over creation in the magisterial response to Job point to an alternative ground of human dignity, one able to encompass “image of God” aspirations with the more sober “drop in the bucket” cosmological realities of the Joban tradition?
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Ecce Homo: Human Origins and Human Dignity in Genesis and Job
Biology Amphitheater, Price Hall 106
ABSTRACT
This paper will explore biblical images for the foundation of human nature and dignity. In particular the anthropocentric accounts of Genesis 1-3 will be brought into juxtaposition with the speeches of YHWH from the whirlwind in Job 38-41. Might the apparent diminution of humankind’s vicarious sovereignty over creation in the magisterial response to Job point to an alternative ground of human dignity, one able to encompass “image of God” aspirations with the more sober “drop in the bucket” cosmological realities of the Joban tradition?
BIO
Comments
Dr. Keim earned an MDiv from the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and PhD from Harvard University. While serving with Mennonite Central Committee in Poland in the early 1980s, he pursued studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and also at Warsaw University. He has twice spent year-long sabbatical leaves as visiting professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany (2007-8 and 2016-17). Paul and his family have led Goshen SST units (international study program) in Germany and Morocco. He is currently writing a commentary on the Book of Job for the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series. Keim teaches on a wide array of topics, including the Hebrew Scriptures, Islam, and Religion and Sports.