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Reading Genesis : ten methods

Author: Ronald S Hendel
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship. Essays by ten eminent scholars cover the perspectives of literature, gender, memory, sources, theology, and the reception of Genesis in Judaism and Christianity. Each contribution addresses the history and rationale of the method, insightfully explores particular texts of Genesis, and deepens the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald S Hendel
ISBN: 9780521518611 052151861X 9780521732390 0521732395
OCLC Number: 558673692
Description: xi, 230 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Literature / Robert Alter --
Cultural memory / Ronald Hendel --
Sources and redaction / Robert S. Kawashima --
Gender and sexuality / Ronald Hendel, Chana Kronfeld, and Ilana Pardes --
Inner-biblical interpretation / Yair Zakovitch --
Rabbinic interpretation / Dina Stein --
Interpretation in the early church / Richard A. Layton --
Translation / Naomi Seidman --
Modern literature / Ilana Pardes --
Modern theology / John J. Collins.
Responsibility: edited by Ronald Hendel.

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Advance praise: 'Whatever its title, Reading Genesis: Ten Methods is not just ten any old ways of reading this iconic book of Jewish and Christian tradition. Rather, it is ten cutting-edge ways of Read more...

 
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