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From creation to Babel : studies in Genesis 1-11 / John Day

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 592Publication details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013Description: xiv, 230 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 97805672150930567215091
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1235.52  .D39 2013
Contents:
The meaning and background of the Priestly creation story (Genesis 1.1-2.4A) -- Problems in the interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden -- Cain and the Kenites -- The flood and the ten antediluvian figures in Berossus and in the Priestly source in Genesis -- The sons of God and daughters of men and the giants: disputed points in the interpretation of Genesis 6.1-4 -- The Genesis flood narrative in relation to ancient Near Eastern flood accounts -- Rooms or reeds in Noah's Ark (Genesis 6.14)? -- Why does God 'establish' rather than 'cut' a covenant with Noah (and Abraham) in the Priestly source? -- Noah's drunkenness, the curse of Canaan, Ham's crime, and the blessing of Shem and Japheth (Genesis 9.18-27) -- Where was Tarshish (Genesis 10.4)? -- The tower and city of Babel story (Genesis 11.1-9): problems of interpretation and background.
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The meaning and background of the Priestly creation story (Genesis 1.1-2.4A) -- Problems in the interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden -- Cain and the Kenites -- The flood and the ten antediluvian figures in Berossus and in the Priestly source in Genesis -- The sons of God and daughters of men and the giants: disputed points in the interpretation of Genesis 6.1-4 -- The Genesis flood narrative in relation to ancient Near Eastern flood accounts -- Rooms or reeds in Noah's Ark (Genesis 6.14)? -- Why does God 'establish' rather than 'cut' a covenant with Noah (and Abraham) in the Priestly source? -- Noah's drunkenness, the curse of Canaan, Ham's crime, and the blessing of Shem and Japheth (Genesis 9.18-27) -- Where was Tarshish (Genesis 10.4)? -- The tower and city of Babel story (Genesis 11.1-9): problems of interpretation and background.

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