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...
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 ‘encounters’...
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...
Inter-Varsity Press, 1967. — 224 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) Genesis — the Bible's account of human origins and the harbinger of human destiny — is a book teeming with critical problems. Who wrote it? When? Does the account of creation square with modern science? What about Adam and Eve? Derek Kidner not only provides a running exegetical commentary, but lucidly...
Inter-Varsity Press, 1967. — 224 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) Genesis — the Bible's account of human origins and the harbinger of human destiny — is a book teeming with critical problems. Who wrote it? When? Does the account of creation square with modern science? What about Adam and Eve? Derek Kidner not only provides a running exegetical commentary, but lucidly...
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...
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 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...
IVP, 1972. — 167 p. Genesis is a book of origins--the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of man. It places man in his cosmic setting, shows his particular uniquness, explains his wonder and his flaw, and begins to trace the flow of human history through space and time. Many today, however, view this book as a collection of myths, useful for understanding...
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...
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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