Genesis: An Introduction and Study Guide: A Past for a People in Need of a Future (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)

Cover
Contents
Series Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations
1 What Is Genesis, Where Did It Come from, and Why?
	What Is Genesis?
		Genealogy
		Narrative
		Promise and blessing material
		Tentative conclusions about genre and form
	Where Did Genesis Come From?
		Israel
		North America
		Europe
	Why Genesis?
	References
2 Where Does Genesis Fit?
	Scrolls and Books
	Where Does Genesis Belong?
	Genesis as the First Book of the Pentateuch
	Genesis as the First Book of the Hexateuch
	Genesis as the First Book of the Tetrateuch
	Genesis as the First Book of the Triteuch
	Genesis as the First Book of the Enneateuch
	Genesis as Independent
	References
3 Themes and Theology
	Creation/Uncreation
	Creation/Uncreation
	Promise/Impossibility
		Promise
		Covenant
		Oath
	Promise/Impossibility
	Peace/Conflict
	Peace/Conflict
		Genesis 34
		Genesis 13, 21:22-34 and 26:12-35
	References
4 Reading Genesis in a Postmodern World
	Trauma-Informed Readings
		Gen. 21:8-21
	Political Readings
		Gen. 21:8-21
	Intersectionalist Readings
		Gen. 21:8-21
	Ecological Readings
		Gen. 21:8-21
	Intertextual Readings
		Gen. 21:8-21
	References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of References