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The ANE perspective on creation & am I fence sitting?

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Can one affirm both the Mytho-History/cosmic
Temple view and framework hypothesis, or do they conflict in some way?
I don't believe there is a contradiction between the two. Most scholars, including John Walton note in writings that they acknowledge the triad structure of Genesis with days 1-3 relating to ordering the realms, tohu, and days 4-6 filling those realms with their host, bohu.

I would recommend the book "Reading Genesis 1 and 2: An Evangelical Conversation".

This book gives 5 different interpretations of Genesis. 4 out of the 5 are not YEC. So you'll see a lot of crossover commentary between the framework hypothesis and a handful of well studied scholarly opinions. And each scholar shares a perspective and the other 4 critique that perspective, then the book rotates to a different scholar and a different topic of Genesis.
 
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Can one affirm both the Mytho-History/cosmic
Temple view and framework hypothesis, or do they conflict in some way?

I don't see any reason they can't be held in tandem. The main thing for me is to keep in mind that Genesis 1 is primarily prophetic in nature and, as is seen in Mosaic, Deuteronomic Law, was written to differentiate Israel in its theology from that of its neighboring kingdoms. I think that on a literary and anthropological basis, there's room for both of these perspectives.
 
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The main thing for me is to keep in mind that Genesis 1 is primarily prophetic in nature and, as is seen in Mosaic, Deuteronomic Law, was written to differentiate Israel in its theology from that of its neighboring kingdoms.
Yes. Exactly so.
 
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