NAČINIMO ČOVJEKA… (POST 1,26) ANTROPOLOŠKI NAGLASCI U POST 1,1-2,4A
LET US MAKE MAN… (GENESIS 1, 26) ANTHROPOLOGICAL EMPHASES IN GEN 1, 1-2, 4A

Summary/Abstract: Genesis 1, 1-2, 4a represents a magnificent introduction to the chapters of biblical prehistory (Gen 1-11), which are essential for understanding of biblical conception of man, of history and their relationship to God. Thus it prepares the background for the long history of the relationship between God the Creator and man. The traditional belief that Genesis 1, 1-2, 4a represents concentrate P of the doctrine, which took years to develop and to be carefully shaped into the form of a hymn glorifying God - the Creator who creates everything. In accordance with this it is a common practice to emphasize the harmony of God’s act of creation which in its entirety was very good (Gen 1, 31). This study is aimed at research of man’s position within the context of the first account on Creation. But it doesn’t reside on the established qualifications of the harmonized relations where man fits by Creation, it attempts to go further. Starting from the literary-theological givenness of the very text, as well as from the results of the previous exegetic works, in its first section the article emphasizes the fundamental characteristics of man’s position, only to go a step further in the second section, where it highlights several categories of challenging relations inherited by man on the grounds of Gen 1, 1-2, 4a.

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