Genesis /
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| Imprint: | Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xvi, 344 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texts@contexts |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7990166 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Texts @ Contexts Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. Beginnings: The Creation Revisited
- 1. A Critical Assessment of the Creation Mandate in Genesis 1:26-28 and Its Human Rights Implications for Nigeria
- 2. The Genesis Creation Accounts: An African Background
- 3. The Tree of Life as a Female Symbol?
- 4. History or His Story?: Ideology of the Body in the First Creation Narrative
- 5. Sin, Gender, and Responsibility: A Contextual Interpretation of Genesis 3
- 6. Re-reading Genesis 1-3 in the Light of Ancient Chinese Creation Myths
- 7. When the Flood Narrative of Genesis Meets Its Counterpart in China: Reception and Challenge in Cross-Textual Reading
- 8. Unity and Scattering: Toward a Holistic Reading of Genesis 11:1-9 in the South African Context
- 9. Vegetarian Ideology in Talmudic Literature and Traditional Biblical Exegesis
- Part 2. Redreaming with Joseph and Others
- 10. "Here Comes This Dreamer": Reading Joseph the Slave in Multicultural and Interfaith Contexts
- 11. Joseph's Journey: From Trauma to Resolution
- 12. "Leadership and Land": A Very Contextual Interpretation of Genesis 37-50 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- 13. "Same Bed, Different Dreams": An Engendered Reading of Families in Migration in Genesis and Hong Kong
- Part 3. Issues of Gender, Family, and Class
- 14. The Case of Judah and Tamar in the Contemporary Israeli Context: A Relevant Interpolation
- 15. Characterizations, Comedy, and Catastrophe: Divine/Human Relations, Emotions, and Rules of Law
- 16. Reading Hagar in Contexts: From Exegesis to Inter-Contextual Analysis
- 17. The African Wife of Abraham: An African Reading of Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:8-21
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Scripture Index
- Ancient and Other Extra-Biblical Sources Index
