The book of Genesis : composition, reception, and interpretation /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Description:xxiii, 763 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; volume 152. The formation and interpretation of Old Testament literature ; 6
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 152.
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. Formation and interpretation of Old Testament literature ; 6.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8740908
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Other authors / contributors:Evans, Craig A., editor.
Lohr, Joel N., editor.
Petersen, David L., editor.
ISBN:9789004226531 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004226532 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004226579 (e-book)
9004226575 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • The study of the book of Genesis : the beginning of critical reading / Jean-Louis Ska
  • Genesis in the Pentateuch / Konrad Schmid
  • Historical context / Ronald S. Hendel
  • Literary analysis / Robert S. Kawashima
  • The formation of the primeval history / Jan Christian Gertz
  • Food and the first family : a socioeconomic perspective / Carol L. Meyers
  • Abraham traditions in the Hebrew Bible outside the book of Genesis / Thomas Romer
  • The Jacob tradition / Erhard Blum
  • Genesis 37-50, Joseph story or Jacob story? / Richard J. Clifford
  • Joseph and wisdom / Michael V. Fox
  • How the compiler of the Pentateuch worked : the composition of Genesis 37 / Baruch J. Schwartz
  • The world of the family in Genesis / Naomi A. Steinberg
  • Genesis in Josephus / Christopher T. Begg
  • Cain and Abel in Second Temple literature and beyond / John Byron
  • Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Sidnie White Crawford
  • Genesis and Its reception in Jubilees / C.T.R. Hayward
  • Textual and translation Issues in Greek Genesis / Robert J.V. Hiebert
  • When the beginning is the end: the place of Genesis in the commentaries of Philo / Gregory E. Sterling
  • The reception of Genesis in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum Biblicarum / Rhonda J. Burnette-Bletsch
  • Genesis in the New Testament / Craig A. Evans
  • Genesis in Aramaic : the example of Chapter 22 / Bruce Chilton
  • The Vetus Latina and the Vulgate of the book of Genesis / David L. Everson
  • Genesis in Syriac / Jerome A. Lund
  • The Fathers on Genesis / Andrew Louth
  • Genesis in rabbinic interpretation / Burton L. Visotzky
  • Genesis, the Qur'an and Islamic interpretation / Carol Bakhos
  • The theology of Genesis / Joel S. Kaminsky
  • Genesis in the context of Jewish thought / Marvin A. Sweeney
  • Genesis and ecology / Terence E. Fretheim.