"Presents the main aspects of Genesis study. This title contains studies of a more general nature, including the history of Genesis in critical study, Genesis in literary and historical study, as well as the function of Genesis in the Pentateuch."--Publisher's description.
"These volumes contain thirty essays, written over the last thirty-three years (with the very large majority over the last two decades), focusing on or touching upon a variety of the ways that Scripture (what became what we have come to call the Hebrew Bible or TeNaKh) was read,…
Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to "survival machines" whose sole purpose was to preserve "the selfish molecules known as genes." How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mys…
"Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to 'survival machines' whose sole purpose was to preserve 'the selfish molecules known as genes.' How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a my…
This commentary is an innovative interpretation of one of the most profound texts of world literature: the book of Genesis. The first book of the Bible has been studied, debated, and expounded as much as any text in history, yet because it addresses the weightiest questions of l…
This commentary is an innovative interpretation of one of the most profound texts of world literature: the book of Genesis. This new commentary combines older critical approaches with the latest rhetorical methodologies to yield fresh interpretations accessible to scholars, cler…
"This edition of Origen's homilies on the Book of Genesis in Rufin's Latin translation is based on a new extensive analysis of medieval textual sources, which incorporates virtually all of the early manuscripts up to the 10th century. The critical and intertextual commentaries h…
