Genesis as Dialogue: A Literary, Historical, & Theological Commentary

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• Genesis as Dialogue *
• Title Page *
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgments xvii
• Contents xix
• A Note on Method xxv
• Abbreviations xxix
• Introduction *
• Part One 1
• 1 - The Shift in the Evidence 5
• 2 - Consistent Overlapping Structures—chiasms, Spiraling Stories, and Double Dramas, Including Twenty-Six Diptychs *
• 3 - Truth as Dialogical (Binary/diptych-Like) 26
• 4 - The Diptych Structure: Original or Redactional? *
• 5 - A Further Shift of Evidence *
• Part Two 52
• 6 - The Greco-Persian World and Its Ancient Heritage 53

• Genesis as Dialogue *
• Title Page *
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgments xvii
• Contents xix
• A Note on Method xxv
• Abbreviations xxix
• Introduction *
• Part One 1
• 1 - The Shift in the Evidence 5
• 2 - Consistent Overlapping Structures—chiasms, Spiraling Stories, and Double Dramas, Including Twenty-Six Diptychs *
• 3 - Truth as Dialogical (Binary/diptych-Like) 26
• 4 - The Diptych Structure: Original or Redactional? *
• 5 - A Further Shift of Evidence *
• Part Two 52
• 6 - The Greco-Persian World and Its Ancient Heritage 53
• 7 - Theological Inquiry, Codification, and Historiography *
• 8 - Historiography, Epic, Prophecy, Law, and Other *
• 9 - Toward Detecting the Process of Composition *
• 10 - Date, Place, and People: a Summary of Key Arguments *
• Part Three 87
• 11 - Human Existence Under God 89
• 12 - Genesis and History 98
• 13 - Genesis and Psychology *
• 14 - Genesis and Spirituality *
• 15 - Further Aspects of Content *
• Commentary 120
• Part Four 122
• 16 - Creation from God: the Grandeur (the Universe, 1:1–2:4a) Creation for Humankind: the Groundedness (the Garden, 2:4b—24) 123
• 17 - Disharmony with God (2:25-Chap. 3) Disharmony with One's Brother (4:1—16) *
• 18 - The Ten Generations of Cain and Adam (4:17–26) the Ten-Generation Genealogy of Adam (chap. 5) 157
• 19 - Creation Undone (chaps. 6–7) Creation Remade (8:1–9:17) *
• 20 - Humankind in Embryo: Three Sons Contrasted (9:18–29) Humankind at Large: Three Sons' Sons Contrasted (chap. 10) *
• 21 - The Towering City Fails (11:1–9) the Great Genealogy Fades (11:10–32) *
• Part Five 207
• 22 - The Trial of Seeing Beyond Beauty (12:1–13:1) the Trial of Seeing Beyond Wealth (13:2–10) 209
• 23 - Amid an Enslaving War, a Blessing (chap. 14) Amid Uncertainty and Enslavement, a Covenant (chap. 15) *
• 24 - A Personal Conflict Excluding Foreign Slaves (chap. 16) a Vision Including Such Slaves (chap. 17) *
• 25 - Abraham's Generosity: a Basis for Justice (chap. 18) the Rescue of Lot: Justice as Generous (19:1–29) *
• 26 - Lot's Foreign Children and Abraham the Foreigner (19:30-Chap. 20) Abraham's Child and the Foreigners (chap. 21) 254
• 27 - The Offering of the Son (chap. 22) the Death of the Wife (chap. 23) 265
• 28 - The Double Betrothal (chap. 24) the Double Genealogy (25:1–18) *
• Part Six 291
• 29 - The Family: Problems of Birth and Beauty (25:19–26:11) the Outside World: Problems with Contending Philistines and Wealth (26:12–33) 293
• 30 - The Deceptive Blessing (26:34–27:45) the Deceptive Betrothal (27:46–29:30) 303
• 31 - The Generating of Children (29:31–30:24) the Generating of Flocks (30:25–43) *
• 32 - The Fear in Meeting Laban (31:1–32:2) the Greater Fear in Meeting Esau (32:3—chap. 33) 320
• 33 - Dinah: Paralysis at Shechem (chap. 34) Deborah: Pilgrimage Through Bethel (35:1–20) *
• 34 - The Shrunken Genealogy of Jacob (35:21–29) the Expansive Genealogy of Esau (chap. 36) *
• Part Seven 349
• 35 - Joseph, the Prophetic Dreamer, is Sold (37:2–36) Judah's Whoring and Conversion (chap. 38) 351
• 36 - The Moral Trial (chap. 39) the Interpretation Trial (chap. 40) *
• 37 - Joseph Becomes the Wise Ruler of Egypt (chap. 41) the Anatomy of the Brothers' Conversion (chap. 42) *
• 38 - An Initial Turning and Joseph's Generous Meal (chap. 43) the Final Turning Back, Led by Judah (chap. 44) 380
• 39 - Joseph Revealed: Reconciliation and Sending (chap. 45) Jacob's Journey to Pharaoh: Reconciliation and Land (46:1–47:11) *
• 40 - Amid Famine, Life (47:12–28) Amid Death: Blessing (47:29-Chap. 48) 398
• 41 - Jacob's Final Blessings and Death (chap. 49) Jacob's Burial (with Mourning and Aftermath) (chap. 50) 406
• Appendices 419
• Appendix One - Tracing Sources: Toward Clarifying the Criteria for Detecting Sources 421
• Appendix Two - Sources: Genesis's Use of the Prophets 433
• Appendix Three - Sources: Genesis's Use of Homer's Odyssey 447
• Appendix Four - Sources: the Theory of Four Hypothetical Documents (j, E, D, and P) 495
• Appendix Five - Landmarks in the Development of Literature: Toward a Map of Language, Writing, and Literature 503
• Appendix Six - The Landscape and the Lion: Genesis and the Gospels 519
• Appendix Seven - Genesis in the Lectionaries 523
• Bibliography 533
• Index to Modern Authors 563
• Subject Index 569