TY - BOOK AU - Day, John TI - From creation to Babel : : studies in Genesis 1-11 T2 - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies SN - 97805672150930567215091 AV - BS1235.52 .D39 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, NY : PB - Bloomsbury Academic, KW - Bible. Genesis, I-XI Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Genesis, I-XI.Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 ER -