| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 579 pages) |
| Contents |
I. The text and its immediate context (Genesis-Kings, The primary history) -- Genesis's unity -- Further evidence of Genesis's unity -- The quest for the theory behind the Diptychs -- The Diptych structure: Original or redactional? -- Genesis as part of a larger unity (the primary history, Genesis-Kings) |
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II. Historical background -- The historical and social background -- Greco-Persian features -- Verifiable sources -- Toward directing the process of composition -- Date, place, and people: A summary of key arguments |
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III. Genesis's content and meaning -- Genesis's central concern -- Genesis and history -- Genesis and psychology -- Genesis and spirituality -- Genesis as a reflection of the complexity of life |
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IV. Beginnings -- Creation and its harmony (1:1-2:24) -- Sin and its disharmony: Crime and punishment (2:25-4:16) -- Genealogies: From more disharmony to restoration (4:17-Chap. 5) -- The Flood's creation: More sinful, more compassionate (6:1-9:17) -- Noah's sons: The world's mixture of curse and blessing (9:18-Chap. 10) -- failed tower and fading family: Life's fragmentation (Chap. 11) |
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v. The story of Abraham -- Abram journeys and sees the land (Chaps. 12-13) -- War -- and vision of a covenant (Chaps. 14-15) -- Personal conflict, and vision of a deeper covenant (Chaps. 16-17) -- Sodom: Generosity-based justice (18:1-19:29) -- Abraham and Isaac among the nations (19:30-Chap. 21) -- Facing death (Chaps. 22-23) -- Rebekah, betrothal, and genealogy (24:1-25:18) |
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VI. The story of Jacob -- Isaac's Jacob-oriented journey (25:19-26:33) -- Blessing and betrothal: Jacob deceives and is deceived (26:34-29:30) -- Jacob's children and flocks (29:31-Chap. 30) -- The long journey homeward (Chaps. 31-33) -- From paralysis to pilgrimage (34:1-35:20) -- Genealogies: Jacob declines and Esau prospers (35:21-37:1) |
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VII. The story of Joseph -- Prophecy and conversion (37:2-Chap. 38) -- Joseph: The initiatory trials (Chaps. 39-40) -- Remembering Joseph: His rise and the brothers' conversion (Chaps. 41-42) -- Back to Egypt: The generosity that brings conversion -- Joseph revealed: Vision-led recovery of relationship and land (45:1-47:11) -- Amid famine and death: Life and blessing (47:12-Chap. 48) -- Jacob's death and burial (Chaps. 49-50) |
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Appendices: -- Tracing sources: Toward clarifying the criteria for detecting sources -- Sources: Genesis's use of the prophets -- Sources: Genesis's use of Homer's Odyssey -- Sources: The theory of four hypothetical documents (J, E, D, and P) -- Landmarks in the development of literature: Toward a map of language, writing, and literature -- The landscape and the lion: Genesis and the Gospels -- Genesis in the Lectionaries |
| Summary |
Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis-the first book of the Bible, and a foundational text of Western culture. This commentary aims to offer a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical standpoints. The author's work is organized around three main ideas: the first is that the primary subject of Genesis is human existence-while full of historical echoes, it is primarily a sophisticated portrayal of the progress and pitfalls of human life. His second thesis is that Genesis' basic organizational unity is binary, or diptych: building on older insights that Genesis is somehow dialogical, he argues that the entire book is composed of diptychs-accounts which, like some paintings, consist of two parts or panels. Finally, Brodie contends that many of Genesis' sources still exist, and can be identified and verified |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-561) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
880-01 Bible. Genesis -- Commentaries
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880-01/(S Bible. A.T. Genγ̐ưese -- Commentaires |
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Bible. Genesis fast |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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Genesis (bijbelboek)
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| Genre/Form |
Commentaries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198031642 |
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0198031645 |
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9786611943530 |
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6611943536 |
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