Reading Genesis. Ten Methods. Edited by Ronald Hendel
This first-class collection of essays is highly recommended. Ten eminent scholars from America and Israel offer 10 different, but coherent and interlocking approaches to reading Genesis, presenting each method analytically, and then in practice with examples. Since it is a relatively short book, the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 126-128 |
| Review of: | Reading Genesis (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) (Murdoch, Brian)
Reading Genesis (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Murdoch, Brian) Reading Genesis (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) (Murdoch, Brian) |
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| Summary: | This first-class collection of essays is highly recommended. Ten eminent scholars from America and Israel offer 10 different, but coherent and interlocking approaches to reading Genesis, presenting each method analytically, and then in practice with examples. Since it is a relatively short book, the practical illustrations are limited, but are for the most part well chosen as examples. The work as a whole is clear, well written, and solid, stressing at the beginning, for example, that reading Genesis honestly requires at least some knowledge of an ancient language, that it proposes to avoid prescriptive approaches to gender and sexuality, and that it is cautious of readings by committed theologians. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs004 |