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Discovering Genesis : content, interpretation, reception / Iain Provan

Author
Provan, Iain W. (Iain William), 1957-
Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)
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Contents
About the author; Title page; Imprint; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Strategies for reading 1: Before the Renaissance; 3. Strategies for reading 2: From the Renaissance until the present; 4. The world of Genesis: Locating the text in its time and place; 5. Creation: Genesis 1.1-2.25; 6. The entrance of evil: Genesis 3.1-24; 7. From Cain to the great flood: Genesis 4.1-6.8; 8. From Noah to the tower of Babel: Genesis 6.9-11.26; 9. Abraham, Sarah and Isaac: Genesis 11.27-25.18; 10. The Jacob story: Genesis 25.19-37.1. and 11. The Joseph story: Genesis 37.2-50.26Bibliography; Search items for biblical references; Search items for pre-modern sources; Search names for authors.
Summary
Iain Provan here offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to the book of Genesis, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates, and historical reception. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches (author-, text-, and reader-centered) as complementary rather than mutually exclusive ways of understanding, Discovering Genesis encourages students to dig deeply into the theological and historical questions raised by the text. It provides a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretive debates, focusing especially on the reception history of the biblical text, a subject of growing interest to students and scholars of the Bible.
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ISBN
9781467445412 (electronic bk.)
146744541X (electronic bk.)
9780802872371
0802872379
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-198) and indexes.
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