Reading the Fractures of Genesis
Subtitle: Historical and Literary Approaches
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780664220716
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.
Description: In Reading the Fractures of Genesis, David M. Carr shows how understanding the history of the formation of the book of Genesis impacts a reading of the book's final form. According to Carr, a clear understanding of Genesis can be obtained only when one takes seriously its complex and fractured nature, a multivoiced text that developed over many centuries.

Drawing on the best in European and North American scholarship to present this new approach to Genesis, he produces a provocative interpretation that helps to bridge the widening gap between opposing methodological camps in the study of Genesis.