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Gordon H. Johnston

Old Testament scholar at Dallas Theological Seminary, examining biblical literature and its ancient Near Eastern contexts.

Hieroglyphic texts on the walls of Unas’s pyramid at Saqqara, from the late Fifth Dynasty, around the twenty-fourth century BCE. Photograph taken on 13 October 2017. The image provides context for ancient Egyptian texts used in scholarly comparisons of creation traditions
Hieroglyphic texts on the walls of Unas’s pyramid at Saqqara, from the late Fifth Dynasty, around the twenty-fourth century BCE. Photograph taken on 13 October 2017. The image provides context for ancient Egyptian texts used in scholarly comparisons of creation traditionsAidan McRae Thomson / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · CC BY-SALicense · Related reference · Image source

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Gordon H. Johnston teaches Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary, researching wisdom literature and biblical theology. [1]

His 2008 article compares Genesis 1 with Egyptian creation traditions. The archive presents his argument as a scholarly interpretation to assess against the evidence and its dates. [2]

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  1. Dallas Theological Seminary, identity and context: Gordon H. Johnston. Biography and cited works Return to the text ↑
  2. Gordon H. Johnston, “Genesis 1 and Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths,” Bibliotheca Sacra 165 (2008). Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Gordon H. Johnston», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/gordon-h-johnston