The book of Genesis : composition, reception, and interpretation /
edited by Craig A. Evans, Joel N. Lohr, David L. Petersen.
- xxiii, 763 pages ; 25 cm.
- Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 152 0083-5889 ; .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The study of the book of Genesis: the beginning of critical reading / Jean-Louis Ska -- Genesis in the Pentateuch / Konrad Schmid -- Historical context / Ronald S. Hendel -- Literary analysis / Robert S. Kawashima -- The formation of the primeval history / Jan Christian Gertz -- Food and the first family: a socioeconomic perspective / Carol L. Meyers -- Abraham traditions in the Hebrew Bible outside the book of Genesis / Thomas Romer -- The Jacob tradition / Erhard Blum -- Genesis 37-50: Joseph story or Jacob story? / Richard J. Clifford -- Joseph and wisdom / Michael V. Fox -- How the compiler of the Pentateuch worked: the composition of Genesis 37 / Baruch J. Schwartz -- The world of the family in Genesis / Naomi A. Steinberg -- Genesis in Josephus / Christopher T. Begg -- Cain and Abel in Second Temple literature and beyond / John Byron -- Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Sidnie White Crawford -- Genesis and Its reception in Jubilees / C.T.R. Hayward -- Textual and translation Issues in Greek Genesis / Robert J.V. Hiebert -- When the beginning is the end: the place of Genesis in the commentaries of Philo / Gregory E. Sterling -- The reception of Genesis in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum Biblicarum / Rhonda J. Burnette-Bletsch -- Genesis in the New Testament / Craig A. Evans -- Genesis in Aramaic: the example of Chapter 22 / Bruce Chilton -- The Vetus Latina and the Vulgate of the book of Genesis / David L. Everson -- Genesis in Syriac / Jerome A. Lund -- The Fathers on Genesis / Andrew Louth -- Genesis in rabbinic interpretation / Burton L. Visotzky -- Genesis, the Qur'an and Islamic interpretation / Carol Bakhos -- The theology of Genesis / Joel S. Kaminsky -- Genesis in the context of Jewish thought / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Genesis and ecology / Terence E. Fretheim.