This book consists of a theological hermeneutical reading of the meaning
of creation in the First Testament as found in the writings of the
Jesuit biblical scholar Paul Beauchamp. Out of his engagement in the
contemporary dialogue between modern science and theology, Pambrun
explores how a community's experience of creation, as expressed in the
classical creation texts, represents a work of meaning that configures
the Scriptures as a Book. This study examines how Beauchamp's
methodological approach to the Law, the Prophets, and Wisdom as distinct
classes of writings, each obedient to its own set of operations, permits
an encounter to take place among the diverse creation texts. The result
is an enriched understanding of the meaning of creation, a meaning
governed at its core by a language of hope that, in a world scarred by
suffering and violence, attests to the engendering of a new humanity.