The book of Genesis
Subtitle: composition, reception, and interpretation
By: edited by Craig A. Evans, Joel N. Lohr, David L. Petersen
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 152
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 763
ISBN-13: 9789004226531; 9789004226579
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The study of the book of Genesis: the beginning of critical reading / Jean-Louis Ska; title: Genesis in the Pentateuch / Konrad Schmid; title: Historical context / Ronald S. Hendel; title: Literary analysis / Robert S. Kawashima; title: The formation of the primeval history / Jan Christian Gertz; title: Food and the first family: a socioeconomic perspective / Carol L. Meyers; title: Abraham traditions in the Hebrew Bible outside the book of Genesis / Thomas Romer; title: The Jacob tradition / Erhard Blum; title: Genesis 37-50: Joseph story or Jacob story? / Richard J. Clifford; title: Joseph and wisdom / Michael V. Fox; title: How the compiler of the Pentateuch worked: the composition of Genesis 37 / Baruch J. Schwartz; title: The world of the family in Genesis / Naomi A. Steinberg; title: Genesis in Josephus / Christopher T. Begg; title: Cain and Abel in Second Temple literature and beyond / John Byron; title: Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Sidnie White Crawford; title: Genesis and Its reception in Jubilees / C.T.R. Hayward; title: Textual and translation Issues in Greek Genesis / Robert J.V. Hiebert; title: When the beginning is the end: the place of Genesis in the commentaries of Philo / Gregory E. Sterling; title: The reception of Genesis in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum Biblicarum / Rhonda J. Burnette-Bletsch; title: Genesis in the New Testament / Craig A. Evans; title: Genesis in Aramaic: the example of Chapter 22 / Bruce Chilton; title: The Vetus Latina and the Vulgate of the book of Genesis / David L. Everson; title: Genesis in Syriac / Jerome A. Lund; title: The Fathers on Genesis / Andrew Louth; title: Genesis in rabbinic interpretation / Burton L. Visotzky; title: Genesis, the Qur'an and Islamic interpretation / Carol Bakhos; title: The theology of Genesis / Joel S. Kaminsky; title: Genesis in the context of Jewish thought / Marvin A. Sweeney; title: Genesis and ecology / Terence E. Fretheim.