Reading Genesis : beginnings / edited by Beth Kissileff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kissileff, Beth, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Brams, Steven J., writer of supplementary textual content.

Kissileff, Harry R., writer of supplementary textual content.

Weiler, Joseph, 1951- writer of supplementary textual content.

Westheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola), 1928-2024, writer of supplementary textual content.

Mark, Jonathan, writer of supplementary textual content.

Jacoby, Russell, writer of supplementary textual content.

Stavans, Ilan, writer of supplementary textual content.

Schept, Susan, writer of supplementary textual content.

Nathan, Joan, writer of supplementary textual content.

Dershowitz, Alan M., writer of supplementary textual content.

Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- writer of supplementary textual content.

Ostriker, Alicia, writer of supplementary textual content.

Krebs, Ronald R., 1974- writer of supplementary textual content.

Gilman, Sander L., writer of supplementary textual content.

Horn, Dara, 1977- writer of supplementary textual content.

Miller, Geoffrey P., writer of supplementary textual content.

Levine, Renan, 1974- writer of supplementary textual content.

Pava, Moses L., writer of supplementary textual content.

Osherow, Jacqueline, writer of supplementary textual content.

Shoulson, Jeffrey S., writer of supplementary textual content.

Greenberg, Seth, writer of supplementary textual content.

Albert, Steven M. (Steven Mark), 1956- writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Genesis.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 288 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

"This new collection fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical text. These writers use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis: A scientist of appetite on Eve's eating behavior; law professors on contracts in Genesis and psychologists on facial recognition; an anthropologist on end of life issues and a historian on the nature of human strife in the Cain and Abel story; political scientists on the nature of Biblical games, Abraham's resistance and collective action"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Beth Kissileff

The creation and its aftermath (Genesis 1-3) / Steven J. Brams

The apple and Eve : a neuropsychological interpretation (Genesis 2-3) / Harry R. Kissileff, Ph.D.

God's serpent (Genesis 2-3) / J.H.H. Weilder

"It is not good for a man to be alone" (Genesis 2-3) / Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Jonathan Mark

Bloodlust (Genesis 4) / Russell Jacoby

On the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) / Ilan Stavans

Ḥesed : feminist ethics in Jewish tradition (Genesis 12, 24) / Susan Schept

Famines, feasts, and fraternity : food (and drink) in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 18) / Joan Nathan

Why Genesis? (Genesis 18) / Alan Dershowitz

Looking back at Lot's wife (Genesis 19) / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

The face of the other : Sarah - Hagar then and now (Genesis 16, 21) / Alicia Suskin Ostriker

The binding of Isaac and the arts of resistance (Genesis 22) / Ronald R. Krebs

Waiting : a Jewish paradox / Sander L. Gilman

"The matter is from God" : retold narrative and he mistakes of certainty (Genesis 24) / Beth Kissileff

Jacob : some notes on character development and repentance / Dara Horn

Contracts of Genesis (Genesis 27) / Geoffrey P. Miller

Judah and his brothers : becoming the leader of his pride (Genesis 37-50) / Renan Levine

Imperfect forgiveness : Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37-50) / Moses L. Pava

"That we may live and not die" : Judah as life force of Genesis (Genesis 38) / Jacqueline Osherow

Zaphenath, Kugelmass, and Milton (Genesis 41) / Jeffrey Shoulson

"They did not recognize him" : failed facial recognition in the family of Joseph (Genesis 42) / Seth Greenberg

The death of Jacob : responding to the end of life (Genesis 47-50) / Steven Albert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567251268

0567251268

9780567381521

0567381528

OCLC:

935682422