0136 The historicity of Gen 1-11 is hotly contested, despite that fact that the literature of the ancient Near East offers similar narratives.
Gen 1-11 is a special example of the literature of the ancient Near East.
Why?
It survives within a living tradition.
0137 Today, in the twilight of the Age of Ideas, the hypothesis of the first singularity adds a new wrinkle to the proceedings.
Okay, it pulls the rug out from under the contest.
Why?
Gen 1-11 offers an insider’s view to the start of our current Lebenswelt, our simultaneously uplifting and falling world of unconstrained social complexity.
0138 God’s Word2a, the stuff of grace, percolates upwards, through the sensible classification of genre2b, and enters into the stuff of nature, a scientific hypothesis concerning the evolutionarily-recent potentiation of unconstrained social complexity2c.
0139 This hypothesis touches base with Saint Paul’s intuition. Adam connects to the entire civilized world, our current Lebenswelt, the world of unconstrained social complexity and the world of speech-alone talk. Today, no culture is untouched by the wealth and power of civilizations.
0140 Perhaps, the North American Plains Indians and the Australian Aborigines are the last viable cultures to lose the hand component of their hand-speech talk.
Is it a coincidence that the first singularity completes at the same time that our awareness of the first singularity begins?
Our theodrama begins with Adam.