Description
Book SynopsisThis volume collects the best of recent research and classic essays on the Primeval History, including several articles that have not appeared heretofore in English. The articles provide students and scholars with easy access to significant scholarship illuminating both the world outside the text and the world within the text.
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Editors’ Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Richard S. Hess - One Hundred Fifty Years of Comparative Studies on Genesis 1-11: An Overview
David Toshio Tsumura - Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction
Richard S. Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature
Part 1: Ancient Near Eastern and Comparative Approaches
G. Castellino - The Origins of Civilization according to Biblical and Cuneiform Texts
W. G. Lambert - A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis
A. R. Millard - A New Babylonian ‘Genesis’ Story
Thorkild Jacobsen - The Eridu Genesis
Patrick D. Miller Jr. - Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: A Study in Comparative Mythology
Isaac M. Kikawada - The Double Creation of Mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2
E. A. Speiser - The Rivers of Paradise
Abraham Malamat - King Lists of the Old Babylonian Period and Biblical Genealogies
Robert R. Wilson - The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research
Rykle Borger - The Incantation Series Bit Meseri and Enoch’s Ascension to Heaven
J. Simons - The ‘Table of Nations’ (Genesis 10): Its General Structure and Meaning
D. J. Wiseman - Genesis 10: Some Archaeological Consideration
I. J. Gelb - The Name of Babylon
E. A. Spier - In Search of Nimrod
Samuel Noah Kramer - The ‘Babel of Tongues’: A Sumerian Version
Part 2: Literary and Linguistic Approaches
D. J. A. Clines - Theme in Genesis 1-11
David Toshio Tsumura - The Earth in Genesis 1
Phyllis A. Bird - ‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Genesis 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation
Jerome T. Walsh - Genesis 2:4b-3:24: A Synchronic Approach
Alan Jon Hauser - Genesis 2-3: The Theme of Intimacy and Alienation
Gordon J. Wenham - Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story
S. Gevirtz - Lamech’s Song to His Wives (Genesis 4:23-24)
Bernhard W. Anderson - From Analysis to Synthesis: The Interpretation of Genesis 1-11
Gordon J. Wenham - The Coherence of the Flood Narrative
J. M. Sasson - The ‘Tower of Babel’ as a Clue to the Redactional Structuring of the Primeval History (Genesis 1:1-11:9)
Index of Authorities
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Scripture
