The Book of Genesis

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxiv, 764 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Craig A. Evans, Ph.D. (1983) in Religious Studies, Claremont Graduate University, is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, at Acadia Divinity College and Acadia University. He has published a number of books on the function of the Old Testament in the New Testament.

Joel N. Lohr, Ph.D. (2007) in Old Testament, Durham University, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Trinity Western University. His research concentrates on the Pentateuch (Torah) and Jewish-Christian dialogue.

David L. Petersen, Ph.D. (1972) in Old Testament, Yale University, is Franklin N. Parker Professor of Old Testament at Emory University. His research focuses on the book of Genesis and Hebrew Bible prophetic literature.

Readership

Biblical Scholars, Genesis Scholars, Scholars of Second Temple Judaism, Textual Critics, Scholars of Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Theologians.

Contributors include: Carol Bakhos, Christopher T. Begg, Erhard Blum, Rhonda J. Burnette-Bletsch, John Byron, Bruce Chilton, Richard J. Clifford, Sidnie White Crawford, Craig A. Evans (editor), David L. Everson, Michael V. Fox, Terence E. Fretheim, Jan Christian Gertz, C. T. R. Hayward, Ronald Hendel, Robert J. V. Hiebert, Joel S. Kaminsky, Robert S. Kawashima, Joel N. Lohr (editor), Andrew Louth, Jerome A. Lund, Carol Meyers, David L. Petersen (editor), Thomas Römer, Konrad Schmid, Baruch J. Schwartz, Jean-Louis Ska, Naomi A. Steinberg, Gregory E. Sterling, Marvin A. Sweeney, and Burton L. Visotzky.

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

PART ONE
GENERAL TOPICS

JEAN-LOUIS SKA
The Study of the Book of Genesis: The Beginning of Critical Reading

KONRAD SCHMID
Genesis in the Pentateuch

RONALD S. HENDEL
Historical Context

ROBERT S. KAWASHIMA
Literary Analysis

PART TWO
ISSUES IN INTERPRETATION

JAN CHRISTIAN GERTZ
The Formation of the Primeval History

CAROL L. MEYERS
Food and the First Family: A Socioeconomic Perspective

THOMAS RÖMER
Abraham Traditions in the Hebrew Bible outside the Book of Genesis

ERHARD BLUM
The Jacob Tradition

RICHARD J. CLIFFORD
Genesis 37-50: Joseph Story or Jacob Story?

MICHAEL V. FOX
Joseph and Wisdom

BARUCH J. SCHWARTZ
How the Compiler of the Pentateuch Worked: The Composition of Genesis 37

NAOMI A. STEINBERG
The World of the Family in Genesis

PART THREE
TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION HISTORY

CHRISTOPHER T. BEGG
Genesis in Josephus

JOHN BYRON
Cain and Abel in Second Temple Literature and Beyond

SIDNIE WHITE CRAWFORD
Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls

C. T. R. HAYWARD
Genesis and Its Reception in Jubilees

ROBERT J. V. HIEBERT
Textual and Translation Issues in Greek Genesis

GREGORY E. STERLING
When the Beginning is the End: The Place of Genesis in the Commentaries of Philo

RHONDA J. BURNETTE-BLETSCH
The Reception of Genesis in Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum

CRAIG A. EVANS
Genesis in the New Testament

BRUCE CHILTON
Genesis in Aramaic: The Example of Chapter 22

DAVID L. EVERSON
The Vetus Latina and the Vulgate of the Book of Genesis

JEROME A. LUND
Genesis in Syriac

ANDREW LOUTH
The Fathers on Genesis

BURTON L. VISOTZKY
Genesis in Rabbinic Interpretation

CAROL BAKHOS
Genesis, the Qur’ān and Islamic Interpretation

PART FOUR
GENESIS AND THEOLOGY

JOEL S. KAMINSKY
The Theology of Genesis

MARVIN A. SWEENEY
Genesis in the Context of Jewish Thought

TERENCE E. FRETHEIM
Genesis and Ecology

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