Reading the Fractures of Genesis
Subtitle: Historical and Literary Approaches
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780664256296
First sentence: Although biblical scholars have long agreed that the book of Genesis was created out of earlier traditions (both written and oral) through a long process termed here "transmission history," they intensely disagree right now about how much we can know about that process and how important such knowledge would be, even if it were possible.