Reading Genesis
Subtitle: ten methods
By: edited by Ronald Hendel.
Contributors: Hendel, Ronald S.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521518611; 9780521732390
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible -- Hermeneutics
Description: "Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship. Essays by ten eminent scholars cover the perspectives of literature, gender, memory, sources, theology, and the reception of Genesis in Judaism and Christianity. Each contribution addresses the history and rationale of the method, insightfully explores particular texts of Genesis, and deepens the interpretive gain of the method in question. These ways of reading Genesis, which include its classic past readings, map out a pluralistic model for understanding Genesis in - and for - the modern age"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction Ronald Hendel; 1. Literature Robert Alter; 2. Cultural memory Ronald Hendel; 3. Sources and redaction Robert S. Kawashima; 4. Gender and sexuality Ronald Hendel, Chana Kronfeld, and Ilana Pardes; 5. Inner-biblical interpretation Yair Zakovitch; 6. Rabbinic interpretation Dina Stein; 7. Interpretation in the early church Richard A. Layton; 8. Translation Naomi Seidman; 9. Modern literature Ilana Pardes; 10. Modern theology John J. Collins.