Reading Genesis
Subtitle: beginnings
By: edited by Beth Kissileff
Contributors: Brams, Steven J., writer of supplementary textual content; Weiler, Joseph, 1951- writer of supplementary textual content; Westheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola), 1928- writer of supplementary textual content; Mark, Jonathan, writer of supplementary textual content; Jacoby, Russell, writer of supplementary textual content; Stavans, Ilan, writer of supplementary textual content; Schept, Susan, writer of supplementary textual content; Nathan, Joan, writer of supplementary textual content; Dershowitz, Alan M., writer of supplementary textual content; Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- writer of supplementary textual content; Ostriker, Alicia, writer of supplementary textual content; Krebs, Ronald R., 1974- writer of supplementary textual content; Gilman, Sander L., writer of supplementary textual content; Horn, Dara, 1977- writer of supplementary textual content; Miller, Geoffrey P., writer of supplementary textual content; Levine, Renan, 1974- writer of supplementary textual content; Pava, Moses L., writer of supplementary textual content; Osherow, Jacqueline, writer of supplementary textual content; Shoulson, Jeffrey S., writer of supplementary textual content; Greenberg, Seth, writer of supplementary textual content; Albert, Steven M. (Steven Mark), 1956- writer of supplementary textual content
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780567251268; 9780567381521; 9780567136565
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: "This new collection fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. These writers use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis: A scientist of appetite on Eve's eating behavior; law professors on contracts in Genesis and psychologists on facial recognition; an anthropologist on end of life issues and a historian on the nature of human strife in the Cain and Abel story; political scientists on the nature of Biblical games, Abraham's resistance and collective action"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Beth Kissileff; title: The creation and its aftermath (Genesis 1-3)  -- Steven J. Brams; title: The apple and Eve :; title: a neuropsychological interpretation (Genesis 2-3)  -- Harry R. Kissileff, Ph. D.; title: God's serpent (Genesis 2-3)  -- J.H.H. Weilder; title: "It is not good for a man to be alone" (Genesis 2-3)  -- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Jonathan Mark; title: Bloodlust (Genesis 4)  -- Russell Jacoby; title: On the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11)  -- Ilan Stavans; title: Ḥesed :; title: feminist ethics in Jewish tradition (Genesis 12, 24)  -- Susan Schept; title: Famines, feasts, and fraternity :; title: food (and drink) in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 18)  -- Joan Nathan; title: Why Genesis? (Genesis 18)  -- Alan Dershowitz; title: Looking back at Lot's wife (Genesis 19)  -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein; title: The face of the other :; title: Sarah -- Hagar then and now (Genesis 16, 21)  -- Alicia Suskin Ostriker; title: The binding of Isaac and the arts of resistance (Genesis 22)  -- Ronald R. Krebs; title: Waiting :; title: a Jewish paradox  -- Sander L. Gilman; title: "The matter is from God" :; title: retold narrative and he mistakes of certainty (Genesis 24)  -- Beth Kissileff; title: Jacob :; title: some notes on character development and repentance  -- Dara Horn; title: Contracts of Genesis (Genesis 27)  -- Geoffrey P. Miller; title: Judah and his brothers :; title: becoming the leader of his pride (Genesis 37-50)  -- Renan Levine; title: Imperfect forgiveness :; title: Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37-50)  -- Moses L. Pava; title: "That we may live and not die" :; title: Judah as life force of Genesis (Genesis 38)  -- Jacqueline Osherow; title: Zaphenath, Kugelmass, and Milton (Genesis 41)  -- Jeffrey Shoulson; title: "They did not recognize him" :; title: failed facial recognition in the family of Joseph (Genesis 42)  -- Seth Greenberg; title: The death of Jacob :; title: responding to the end of life (Genesis 47-50) -- Steven Albert.