Provan, Iain W. 1957-

Discovering Genesis : content, interpretation, reception / [print] Iain Provan. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, (c)2016. - ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm. - Discovering biblical texts . - Discovering biblical texts. .



Introduction -- Strategies for reading 1: before the Renaissance -- Strategies for reading 2: from the Renaissance until the present -- The world of Genesis: locating the text in its time and place -- Creation: Genesis 1:1-2:25 -- The entrance of evil: Genesis 3:1-24 -- From Cain to the Great Flood: Genesis 4:1-6:8 -- From Noah to the Tower of Babel: Genesis 6:9-11:26 -- Abraham, Sarah and Isaac: Genesis 11:27-25:18 -- The Jacob story: Genesis 25:19-37:1 -- The Joseph story: Genesis 37:2-50:26.

Iain Provan here offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to the book of Genesis, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates, and historical reception. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches (author-, text-, and reader-centered) as complementary rather than mutually exclusive ways of understanding, Discovering Genesis encourages students to dig deeply into the theological and historical questions raised by the text. It provides a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretive debates, focusing especially on the reception history of the biblical text, a subject of growing interest to students and scholars of the Bible. https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Genesis-Interpretation-Reception-Biblical/dp/0802872379/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9780802872371&qid=1594673198&sr=8-1



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