Genesis 1-11 : tales of the earliest world / a new translation and essays by Edwin M. Good.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Good, Edwin, Author.

Contributor:

Good, Edwin M. (Edwin Marshall), 1928-2014.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Genesis, I-XI. English. Good. 2011

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Genesis, I-XI--Commentaries.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Genesis one to eleven

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world, through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, to the introduction of Abraham. Edwin M. Good offers a new translation of and literary commentary on these chapters, approaching the material as an ancient Hebrew book. Rather than analyzing the chapters in light of any specific religious position, he is interested in what the stories say and how they work as stories, indications in them of their origins as orally performed and transmitted, and how they do and do not connect with one another. Everyone, from those intimately familiar with Genesis to those who have never read it before, will find something new in Genesis 1-11: Tales of the Earliest World.

Contents:

Genesis in seven days

The garden, part 1

The garden, part 2

Offerings and their results

Some descendants

Some more descendants

Unusual births

The flood(s)

Yet another curse; and a blessing

Descendants and nations

A tower and a confusion of words

A transitional genealogy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780804779005

0804779007

OCLC:

753480130