David 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.
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Seters, New York, Northern Kingdom, Near Eastern, Old Testament, Der Jahwist, Old Babylonian, Neukirchener Verlag, Hebrew Bible, Literarische Studien, Temple Scroll, Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives, Old Greek, Scholars Press, Die Tora, Canaanite Myth, Gesammelte Studien, Northern Jacob-Joseph, Slaying the Dragon, Tatian's Diatessaron, Westminster John Knox, Clarendon Press, Indiana University Press, Samaritan Pentateuch, Alten Testament New!
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Seters, New York, Northern Kingdom, Near Eastern, Old Testament, Der Jahwist, Old Babylonian, Neukirchener Verlag, Hebrew Bible, Literarische Studien, Temple Scroll, Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives, Old Greek, Scholars Press, Die Tora, Canaanite Myth, Gesammelte Studien, Northern Jacob-Joseph, Slaying the Dragon, Tatian's Diatessaron, Westminster John Knox, Clarendon Press, Indiana University Press, Samaritan Pentateuch, Alten Testament New!
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- The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jeffrey H. Tigay on 11 pages
- Workings of Old Testament Narrative (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies) by Peter D. Miscall on 6 pages
- Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Michael Fishbane on 5 pages
- From Canaan to Egypt: Structural and Theological Context for the Joseph Story (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 4) by George W. Coats on 5 pages
- Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School by Moshe Weinfeld on 4 pages
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- Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series, 34) by Thomas B. Dozeman on 7 pages
- Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible by Ronald Hendel on 4 pages
- The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age by John J. Collins on page 86, and Back Matter
- Rethinking the Pentateuch: Prolegomena to the Theology of Ancient Israel by Antony F. Campbell SJ on page 64, and Back Matter
- Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature by David M. Carr in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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