Abstract
The scholastic theologians of the High Middle Ages were not about to dismiss it as a mystery known only to God and relegated for us who are in via to a blind and uncomprehending faith. They had after all rediscovered Aristotle, and Aristotle had an answer for everything in the natural world. But what natural explanation could there possibly be for waters that were outside their natural place, and-if the text of Genesis be credited-remained there? Here was the conundrum. In the Prologue to his Commentary on the Sentences Richard Fishacre calls his readers' attention to another passage in the book of Genesis, the story of Abraham being commanded by God to have sex with Hagar, the serving girl, as a condition for his impregnating his wife Sarah. Abraham obeys and the rest, as they say, is sacred history. For Fishacre Hagar represents natural philosophy, Sarah theology. Keywords: biblical text; conundrum; early Oxford masters; Genesis; natural philosophy; the division of the waters; theology
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