Genesis 1-11
Cover -- Titlepage -- Contents -- Editors' Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Commentary -- Initial Overview of the Contents and Literary Patterns in Gen 1-11 -- Major Themes in the History of Interpretation of Gen 1:1-6:4 -- Major Contours of the Diachronic Backgro...
| Summary: | Cover -- Titlepage -- Contents -- Editors' Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Commentary -- Initial Overview of the Contents and Literary Patterns in Gen 1-11 -- Major Themes in the History of Interpretation of Gen 1:1-6:4 -- Major Contours of the Diachronic Background to Gen 1-11 -- Ancient Non-Biblical Precursors -- The Character of Mesopotamian Primeval Texts and Traditions -- The Limited Usefulness of the 'Creation' Category for Reading Gen 1-11 -- Literary Stages in the Formation of Gen 1-11 -- P, Non-P, and Models for their Relationship -- Layers and Dating of the Pre-P Primeval History -- Layers and Dating in the Priestly Levels of the Primeval History -- Early Textual Transmission of Gen 1-11: The Three Major Traditions -- Moving to Commentary -- Genesis 1:1-2:3: The Seven Day Creation Account -- Notes on Text and Translation -- Diachronic Prologue -- Genesis 1:1-2:3 as Priestly and Its Relations to Gen 2:4b-3:24 -- Separate Precursors to Gen 1:1-2:3: The Enuma Elish Epic and Psalm 104 -- The Question of Stratification within Gen 1:1-2:3 Itself -- Synchronic Analysis -- Overview of Gen 1:3-31 -- Commentary -- Conclusion: Divergent Patterns Spanning Gen 1:1-2:3 -- Synthesis -- Genesis 2:4-3:24: The Origins of Adult Human Life in the Garden of Eden -- Notes on Text and Translation -- Diachronic Prologue -- Genesis 2:4a as a Conflational Superscription -- Genesis 2:4b-3:24 (Gen 2-3) as a Pre-Priestly Creation Narrative -- Non-Biblical (Mesopotamian) Precursors to Gen 2-3 -- Other Precursors to Gen 2-3 -- Synchronic Analysis -- Overview -- Commentary -- Temporal Placement -- Genesis 2:4b-17: Scene One in the Concentric Structure (cf. Scene Seven in 3:22-24) -- Genesis 2:18-25: Scene Two in the Concentric Structure (cf. Scene Six, 3:14-21). "This commentary offers a synthesis of close readings of Genesis 1-11 and up-to-date study of the formation of these chapters in their ancient Near Eastern context. Each interpretation of these evocative and multilayered narratives is preceded with a new translation (with textual and philological commentary) and a concise overview of the ways in which each text bears the marks of its shaping over time. This prepares for a close reading that draws on the best of older and newer exegetical insights into these chapters, a reading that then connects to feminist, queer, ecocritical, and other contemporary approaches." |
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| ISBN: | 3170375121 |