Cambridge University Press, Year: 2023. — 358 p. In this book, Guy Darshan explores stories of origins that lie at the heart of Pentateuchal sources in the context of literature created in neighboring societies of the ancient Mediterranean world. A comparative study, his volume analyses the parallels between Biblical origin stories – the narrative traditions arranged in...
London; New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; T&T Clark, 2020. — 727 p. Graham I. Davies provides his long-awaited commentary on the first ten chapters of the second book of the Torah in this in-depth engagement with Exodus chapters 1-10. Davies brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, philological, archaeological, historical, literary, and...
London; New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; T&T Clark, 2020. — 627 p. This volume continues from Graham I. Davies commentary on Exodus 1-10 and takes the reader up to the end of Exodus chapter 18, covering the release of the Israelites from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea. Davies brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological,...
Brill, xxiv, 2019. — 369 p. — (Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies 76). In The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4, Jaap Doedens offers an overview of the history of exegesis of the enigmatic text about the ‘sons of God’, the ‘daughters of men’, and the ‘giants’. First, he analyzes the text of Gen 6:1–4. Subsequently, he tracks the different exegetical proposals from the...
Fortress Press, 2017. — 326 p. Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought...
Mohr Siebeck, 2023. XII, 397 S. — (Forschungen zum Alten Testament (FAT) 175). Die Genesis gehört zu den wirkmächtigsten Büchern des Alten Testaments: Die Erzählungen der biblischen Urgeschichte haben in unserem Kulturraum das Selbst- und Weltbild wie kaum ein anderes Literaturwerk geprägt und über Jahrhunderte den wichtigsten Orientierungspunkt für die Kosmologie und...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1988. — 136 p. — (International Theological Commentary) Genesis 1-11 preserves a unique view of Bible history, tracing the move from Eden, an idyllic world fully in accord with the will of God, to Babel, a fallen world desperately in need of salvation.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 549 p. — (Jewish and Christian Perspectives 24). The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters between Jewish and Christian Exegesis examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia. The volume identifies and analyses evidence of potential...
De Gruyter, 1989. — 266 p. — (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft)
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient...
Eerdmans, 1990. — 540 p. "In the Old Testament we read God’s word as it was spoken to his people Israel. Today, thousands of years later, we hear in these thirty-nine books his inspired and authoritative message for us.” These twin convictions, shared by all of the contributors to The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, define the goal of this ambitious series of...
Eerdmans, 1995. — 794 p. In this volume, Hamilton expounds Genesis 18-50 verse by verse and provides linguistic, literary, and theological commentary of its overarching theme; Yahweh's faithfulness to his promised word and his covenant with those who were chosen to receive it. This evangelical, thorough work features a comprehensive introduction, copious footnotes, and...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 486 p. — (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries). The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel. The first eleven chapters of Genesis narrate the origin of the universe; the creation of the first human beings; the beginnings of moral reasoning, society, and culture; and the...
Brill, 2016. — xiv, 270 p. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 138). In The Death of Jacob: Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 Kerry Lee investigates the deathbed story of the patriarch Jacob and uncovers the presence of a variety of conventional structures underlying its composition, especially a conventional deathbed story or type scene also found in numerous...
Peeters, 2018. — VIII, 473 p. — (Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série 78). Jean L'Hour est prêtre des Missions Étrangères de Paris et ancien professeur d'Ecriture Sainte au General College de Penang (Malaisie). Il est l'auteur de plusieurs études sur le Pentateuque. Le présent travail portant sur les chapitres 2-4 est le second volume d'un commentaire projeté de Genèse 1-11. Comme...
Peeters, 2022. — VI, 473 p. — (Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série 90). Avec ce troisième volume s'achève le commentaire de Genèse 1-11 par Jean L'Hour. La présente étude porte sur les chapitres 5 à 11, avec notamment le commentaire des récits du déluge, de l'ivresse de Noé et de la tour de Babel. Les généalogies ne sont pas négligées tant elles contribuent à structurer l'ensemble...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. — 112 p. — (Old Testament Guides) Walter Moberly's study Guide to Genesis 12-50 provides an invaluable introduction to the second part of Genesis and is essential reading for anyone interested in the patriarchal narratives and the earliest history of the people of Israel.
Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. — 112 p. — (Old Testament Guides) Walter Moberly's study Guide to Genesis 12-50 provides an invaluable introduction to the second part of Genesis and is essential reading for anyone interested in the patriarchal narratives and the earliest history of the people of Israel.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 298 p. — (Old Testament Theology) The book of Genesis contains foundational material for Jewish and Christian theology, both historic and contemporary, and is almost certainly the most appealed-to book in the Old Testament in contemporary culture. R. W. L. Moberly's The Theology of the Book of Genesis examines the actual use made of Genesis in...
Brill, 2018. — xiv, 246 p. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 160). In The Plot-structure of Genesis Todd L. Patterson argues that Genesis is organized by a development from complication to dénouement. The question 'Will the righteous seed survive?' drives the narrative to climax. Gen 4 sets up the complication. Cain and Abel are the seed of the woman who should lead...
Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2017. — 472 S. In den jüdischen Gemeinden Amerikas und Kanadas ist der »Plaut« das Standardwerk jüdischer Tora-Interpretation. Der Kommentar verbindet die Erläuterungen aus dem Schatz rabbinischer Auslegung zu den fünf Büchern Mose mit den Einsichten der modernen Bibelwissenschaft. Die fünf Bände bieten den hebräischen Originaltext mit Vokalisierung und...
Brill, 2015. — 317 p. — (The Bible in Ancient Christianity 8). In The Intertextual Reception of Genesis 1-3 in Irenaeus of Lyons, Stephen Presley explores the intertextual nature of Irenaeus’ interpretation of Genesis 1-3 by drawing on contemporary discussions on the topic. Irenaeus interprets the creation accounts, Presley argues, in continuity with the rest of the scriptural...
Brill, 2019. — viii, 210 p. — (The Bible in Ancient Christianity 14). In Genesis and Cosmos Adam Rasmussen examines how Basil and Origen addressed scientific problems in their interpretations of Genesis 1. For the first time, he offers an in-depth analysis of Basil’s thinking on three problems in Scripture-and-science: the nature of matter, the super-heavenly water, and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1970. — 306 p. The fourteen chapters with which the Book of Genesis conclude comprise a more or less complete story. One need not have read the first thirty-six chapters of the book to appreciate this charming narrative; but if one has one cannot help but be struck by the contrast between the crude and disjointed tales of the Patriarchs, and the...
Brill, 2020. — xvi, 220 p. — (Themes in Biblical Narrative 26). In Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13, Dan Rickett presents a fresh analysis of two of Genesis’ most important characters. Many have understood Lot as Abram’s potential heir and as an ethical contrast to him. Here, Rickett explores whether these readings best reflect the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. - 396 p. - (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 161).
In Abraham in the Book of Jubilees, Jacques van Ruiten offers a systematic analysis of one of the most important and extensive Second Temple Jewish treatments of the figure of Abraham (Jub. 11:14-23:8). Given the importance of representations and reinterpretations of Abraham...
Doubleday, 1964. — 378 p. — (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 1). Genesis is Volume I in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Using authoritative evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and...
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2015. — 400 p. — (Patrologia – Beiträge zum Studium der Kirchenväter 34). Die Studie untersucht die Rezeption der Paradies- und Sündenfallerzählung des Buches Genesis, welche zu den wirkmächtigsten Texten des Alten Testaments zählt. In der christlichen Literatur hat diese eine eindrucksvolle...
Brill, 2016. — 210 p. — (Themes in Biblical Narrative 20). Issues such as the immortality of the soul, the debate about matter versus life, and whether one was capable of knowing the outside world were all being extensively discussed in many religions and cultures in both East and West. The present volume addresses the concept of an immortal soul in a mortal body, and focuses...
Yale University Press, 1975. — 335 p. The book is divided into two parts, Abraham in History and Abraham in Tradition. In Part I, Van Seters argues that there is no unambiguous evidence pointing to an origin for the stories in the 2nd millennium BC. "Arguments based on reconstructing the patriarch's nomadic way of life, the personal names in Genesis, the social customs...
Peeters, 2022. — XIV, 440 p. — (Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série 93). La construction du Pentateuque manifeste l'identité anti-égyptienne d'Israël en s'appuyant sur l'élément fondateur qu'est la sortie d'Égypte. En compensation, le cycle de Joseph présuppose des rapports moins conflictuels avec l'Égypte. Le peuple d'Israël est sauvé de la famine par les Égyptiens. De ce fait,...
Zondervan Academic, 2017. — 408 p. The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the...
Zondervan Academic, 2017. — 560 p. The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the...
T&T Clark, 2000. — 309 p. The divine promises to Abraham have long been recognized as a key to the book of Genesis as a whole. But their variety, often noted, also raises literary and theological problems. Why do they differ each time, and how are they related to each other and to the story of Abraham? Williamson focuses on the promises in Genesis 15 and 17, and concludes that...
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