How to Read Genesis [Text] Tremper Longman.
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TextPublisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: FirstDescription: 192 pages ; Pb 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0877849439; 9780877849438; 184227385X; 9781842273852Subject(s): Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 222.1107 LOC classification: BS1235.52 | .L67 2005| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and indexes.
Understanding the book of "beginnings" -- Who wrote Genesis? -- The shape of the book of Genesis -- Myth or history? : Genesis and the Enuma elish -- Noah and Utnapishtim : whose flood story should we trust? -- Abraham and Nuzi : patriarchal customs in their cultural context -- The primeval history : Genesis 1-11 -- The patriarchal narratives : Genesis 12-36 -- The Joseph story : Genesis 37-50 -- The christological difference.
"In How to Read Genesis Tremper Longman provides a welcome guide to reading and studying, understanding and savoring this panorama of beginnings - of both the world and of Israel.
And importantly for Christian readers, we gain insight into how Genesis points to Christ and can be read in light of the gospel."--Jacket.
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