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Genesis - jĕnˈəsĭs, 1st book of the Bible, first of the five books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. Beginning with two accounts of the creation and of humankind, the narrative relates the initial disobedience of the man and the woman and their consequent expulsion from God's garden. Next is an account of the ongoing effects of human

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Genesis: A Commentary » Read Now
by Gerhard von Rad. 448 pgs.

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This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The authors are scholars of international standing.
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Genesis: The Beginning of Desire » Read Now
by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. 460 pgs.

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In her first book, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, based on her immensely popular weekly lectures in Jerusalem, Avivah Zornberg reanimates the ancient characters of the Bible through her lyrical prose and modern sensibilities. Zornberg illumines the inevitable tensions that grip human beings as...
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In her first book, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, based on her immensely popular weekly lectures in Jerusalem, Avivah Zornberg reanimates the ancient characters of the Bible through her lyrical prose and modern sensibilities. Zornberg illumines the inevitable tensions that grip human beings as they search for and encounter God: the disorder that threatens order, the instability that shatters stability. On the one hand, she writes, we are reassured to find our own tensions reflected in these ancient texts. But on the other hand, the midrashic strategy we bring to the texts will not comfort us with a formalized, serenely fixed image of human life, with pious homiletical messages to shore up our insecurities. For the Torah that seemed so accessible is more multi-layered than we knew; it can be approached only by the strenuous and imaginative 'making' of the reader.
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Genesis as Dialogue: A Literary, Historical, & Theological Commentary » Read Now
by Thomas L. Brodie. 579 pgs.

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Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis - the first book of the Hebrew Bible, and a foundational text of Western culture. In this new commentary, Thomas Brodie offers a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical...
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Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis - the first book of the Hebrew Bible, and a foundational text of Western culture. In this new commentary, Thomas Brodie offers a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical standpoints. Brodie's work is organized around three main ideas. The first is that the primary subject of Genesis is human existence; the second is that Genesis' basic organizational unity is binary, or diptych. Brodie argues that the entire book is composed of diptychs - accounts which, like some paintings, consist of two parts or panels. Finally, Brodie contends that many of Genesis' sources still exist, and can be identified and verified.
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The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages » Read Now
by Brian Murdoch. 209 pgs.

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Saint Jerome's Hebrew Questions on Genesis » Read Now
by Saint Jerome, C. T. R. Hayward. 276 pgs.

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Jerome was one of the very few early Christian scholars to know any Hebrew. This new edition of his Questions on Genesis includes an introduction, translation, and commentary to reveal a fascinating work showing a Christian working alongside Jews in an age very different from our own. Jerome's...
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Jerome was one of the very few early Christian scholars to know any Hebrew. This new edition of his Questions on Genesis includes an introduction, translation, and commentary to reveal a fascinating work showing a Christian working alongside Jews in an age very different from our own. Jerome's influence on the Church is well known--but this work is equally important for the light thrown on the history and origin of many ideas at the heart of the Jewish tradition.
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Changing Senses in Genesis B, in Philological Quarterly » Read Now
by Glenn M. Davis. 19 pgs.

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...and evil." (1) What appears in the Book of Genesis as a brief mention of a change in...expressed this view in the passage from Book 11 of De Genesi ad litteram cited...
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"Genesis" 549-51 and 623-25: Narrative Frame and Devilish Cunning, in Philological Quarterly » Read Now
by John Vickrey. 22 pgs.

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...English, p. 3. (30) On Genesis 19.37-38 see Bede...Old English Version of the Heptateuch, EETS...Riddle 15 of The Exeter Book," RES 20 (1944): 305...Riddles of the Exeter...
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The Struggle for a Blessing: Reflections on Genesis 32:24-31, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Athanasios Hatzopoulos. 6 pgs.

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...after the culmination of the story in Genesis 33. Esau symbolizes...17:16,19,21). In Genesis 32, the blessing Jacob...includes the gift of a name, Israel. He...Narrative...
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Reading Genesis Politically: An Introduction to Mosaic Political Philosophy » Read Now
by Martin Sicker. 153 pgs.

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Sicker examines the first eleven chapters of the biblical book of Genesis to search out the Mosaic political philosophy and normative political theory underlying the biblical texts, and he sets forth the conceptual framework for the moral political society they envisioned.
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The Names of God: Poetic Readings in Biblical Beginnings (Chap. Two "The Creation Story in Genesis, Ch. 1:1-2:4A") » Read Now
by Herbert Chanan Brichto. 464 pgs.

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This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct opposition to current source...
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This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct opposition to current source criticism, which maintains that inconsistencies within the text support an atomistic reading of multiple authors. In The Names of God, Brichto brings us his "poetic" reading of Scripture to the Book of Genesis. Using contemporary methods and insights of literary criticism, he examines one of the great inconsistencies within Genesis that have led to the supposition of multiple authors--the assortment of terms or names for the Deity, among them Yahweh and Elohim--and attempts to show the appropriateness of certain of these names to the stories in which they appear. He also looks at a variety of other data within Genesis such as genealogies, eponyms, and chronologies, and shows that their poetical function--their variety, ingenuity, and imaginative whimsy--is vital to the structure of the text as a whole. In finding a unity in this diversity of materials, Brichto makes a strong case for the text as the artistic achievement of a single author.
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The Bible, Theology, and Faith: A Study of Abraham and Jesus (Chap. 3 "Abraham and God in Genesis 22," Chap. 4 "Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Genesis 22," and Chap. 5 "Genesis 22 and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion") » Read Now
by R. W. L. Moberly. 263 pgs.

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R.W.L. Moberly's aim is to "read the Bible for all it is worth," by connecting the minutiae of biblical scholarship with the big questions of God and human life. Classic Christian understandings of what is necessary to speak validly about God are used to set a context for modern linguistic and...
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R.W.L. Moberly's aim is to "read the Bible for all it is worth," by connecting the minutiae of biblical scholarship with the big questions of God and human life. Classic Christian understandings of what is necessary to speak validly about God are used to set a context for modern linguistic and historical interpretation so as to produce a postmodern understanding of biblical interpretation. Detailed studies of Abraham's sacrifice in Genesis 22, the story of the journey to Emmaus (Luke 24), and the Christology of Matthew's Gospel integrate theory with practice.
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Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis » Read Now
by John van Seters. 367 pgs.

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Genesis and Gender: Biblical Myths of Sexuality and Their Cultural Impact » Read Now
by William E. Phipps. 130 pgs.

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In this provocative treatment of the Genesis stories, Phipps maintains that crucial points pertaining to gender have been overlooked because of faulty interpretations that have been accepted uncritically by society for generations. Examining the history of biblical interpretations, the study focuses...
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In this provocative treatment of the Genesis stories, Phipps maintains that crucial points pertaining to gender have been overlooked because of faulty interpretations that have been accepted uncritically by society for generations. Examining the history of biblical interpretations, the study focuses on both past impact and potential for human relations in the future, and offers a broader concept in which the creation stories are seen as reflections of the male/female relationship as well as the relationship between both genders and their creator. This clearly feminist treatment of the creation stories presents the view that after cultural prejudices are removed, powerful insights for contemporary life are revealed.
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From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis » Read Now
by Devora Steinmetz. 214 pgs.

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Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis » Read Now
by Savina J. Teubal. 204 pgs.

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The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature » Read Now
by Eric Jager. 336 pgs.

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