From creation to Babel : studies in Genesis 1-11 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Day, John, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 592.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.