Biblical geology - Dr. Bernard Northrup
Dr. Bernard Northrup, 1925-2008, was a scholar of the Old Testament and Semitic languages with a ThD from Dallas Theological Seminary. He was on the faculties of Dallas Bible College (1953–1959), San Francisco Baptist Theological Seminary (1959–1972), Baptist Bible Seminary (1972–1978), Central Baptist Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1978–1985), and Shasta Bible College (1985–2005). In addition to teaching, Dr. Northrup also advised Bible translators working with Bibles International and Baptist Mid-Missions, checking work done by pastors in 17 tribal languages in India, the Philippines, and Africa.1
He said of himself in 2001, "I am a Christian Hebraist [Hebrew language scholar] who has studied the Tanakh [entire Hebrew Bible - Law, Prophets, and Writings] for nearly fifty years. I have taught it in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and English languages to many young men who were preparing to serve the Eternal."1 His personal interests included Biblical creationism and geology; he wrote extensively on these subjects, the Old Testament, and living as a Christian.
For many years he tried to persuade Young Earth Creationists that the Flood of Noah was only one of five global catastrophes in Earth's past, and that mistranslations of certain words in Genesis had led to misunderstanding events in that book. His insights into the first chapter of Genesis have been used to support Young Biosphere Creation (YBC) theory, and his translation of Genesis 10:25 has been used to support Shock Dynamics geology theory.
Links to his writings on geology, creationism, and the Bible
Articles on Geology
The five Biblical catastrophies in Genesis - Overview
Biblical Catastrophe Harmonization Model - Chart
Genesis 10:25 and the Days of Peleg
Guidelines for Understanding the Witness in the Record of the Rocks
124 Correlations of the Geologic Column with the Bible
Mountains, Meteorites, and Plate Tectonics
Volcanism and its Contribution to Biblical/Geologic History
The Grand Canyon and Biblical Catastrophies
Taphonomy: A Tool for Studying Earth's Biblical History
Indentifying the Noahic Flood in Historical Geology Part 1
Indentifying the Noahic Flood in Historical Geology Part 2
Book Review of Franciscan Assemblage and Related Rocks
The Sisquoc Diatomite Fossil Beds
Pitfalls of Modern Geochronology
Articles on Creationism
Factors Causing Problems in Bible Interpretation
Some Questionable Creationist Axioms Reexamined
The Rocks and Shoals of Creation Studies in Prediluvian Research
Walk through Time: A Study in Harmonization
Eccentricities Observed in Bouw's "Geocentricity"
Other writings
The Life I now Live in the Flesh
Victory Way to Maturity over the Sin Nature
Recognizing Messiah in the Psalms
The Redeemer in Sheol-Psalm 40
Difficult Texts in Peter and Paul
Micah and the Long, Sad Days before Israel's Latter Days
Reference
[1] General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
