From creation to Babel
Subtitle: studies in Genesis 1-11
By: John Day
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 592; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 592.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780567215093; 9780567370303
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Urgeschichte; Bible
Description: "The stories of Genesis 1-11 constitute one of the better known parts of the Old Testament, but their precise meaning and background still provide many debated questions for the modern interpreter. In this stimulating, learned and readable collection of essays, which paves the way for his forthcoming ICC commentary on these chapters, John Day attempts to provide definitive solutions to some of these questions. Amongst the topics included are the background and interpretation of the seven-day Priestly Creation narrative, problems in the interpretation of the Garden of Eden story, the relation of Cain and the Kenites, the strange stories of the sons of God and daughters of men and of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Canaan, the precise ancient Near Eastern background of the Flood story and the preceding genealogies, and the meaning and background of the story of the tower and city of Babel. Throughout this volume John Day constantly seeks to determine the original meaning of these stories in the light of their ancient Near Eastern background, and to determine how far this original meaning has been obscured by later interpretations."--Bloomsbury Publishing

The stories of Genesis 1-11 constitute one of the better known parts of the Old Testament, but their precise meaning and background still provide many debated questions for the modern interpreter. In this stimulating, learned and readable collection of essays, which paves the way for his forthcoming ICC commentary on these chapters, John Day attempts to provide definitive solutions to some ofthese questions. Amongst the topics included are the background and interpretation of the seven-day Priestly Creation narrative, problems in the interpretation of the Garden of Eden story, the relation of Cain and the Kenites, the strange stories of the sons of God and daughters of men and of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Canaan, the precise ancient Near Eastern background of the Flood story and the preceding genealogies, and the meaning and background of the story of the tower and city of Babel. Throughout this volume John Day constantly seeks to determine the original meaning of these stories in the light of their ancient Near Eastern background, and to determine how far this original meaning has been obscured by later interpretations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-214) and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: The meaning and background of the Priestly creation story (Genesis 1.1-2.4A) --; title: Problems in the interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden --; title: Cain and the Kenites --; title: The flood and the ten antediluvian figures in Berossus and in the Priestly source in Genesis --; title: The sons of God and daughters of men and the giants: disputed points in the interpretation of Genesis 6.1-4 --; title: The Genesis flood narrative in relation to ancient Near Eastern flood accounts --; title: Rooms or reeds in Noah's Ark (Genesis 6.14)? --; title: Why does God 'establish' rather than 'cut' a covenant with Noah (and Abraham) in the Priestly source? --; title: Noah's drunkenness, the curse of Canaan, Ham's crime, and the blessing of Shem and Japheth (Genesis 9.18-27) --; title: Where was Tarshish (Genesis 10.4)? --; title: The tower and city of Babel story (Genesis 11.1-9): problems of interpretation and background.