Creation, un-Creation, Re-creation : A Discursive Commentary on Genesis 1-11.

Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new commentary on Genesis 1-11, the so-called 'Primeval History' in which the account of creation is given. Blenkinsopp works with the conviction that, from a biblical point of view, creation cannot be restricted to a single event, nor to two versions of an ev...

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Author / Creator: Blenkinsopp, Joseph.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2011.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Humanity: The First Phase -- Genesis 1-11: The Basic Story -- Sources -- Theme -- History or Myth? -- Creation Beyond Point Zero -- 2. In the Beginning -- The Priest-Scribe's Version -- The Sixth Day (Genesis 1:26-28) -- What Was There before God Spoke (Genesis 1:1-2) -- The Abyss and its Denizens -- The Praise of the Creator God in Psalms -- Transcendent Wisdom -- Wisdom, First-Created, First-Generated -- Summary -- 3. The Story of the Man, the Woman and the Snake -- The Eden Myth -- The Scenario -- The Man and the Woman -- The Woman and the Snake -- The Sequel (Genesis 3:8-24) -- Summary -- 4. Cain and Abel: A Murder Mystery -- Adam's Three Sons -- Cain and his Descendants -- Adam, Seth, Enosh -- The Murder and its Sequel -- Filling in the Gaps in the Story -- The Evil that Would Not Die -- 5. Enoch and his Times -- The Antediluvians -- The Search for the Structure of Time -- Literary Characteristics of the Genealogies -- The Near-Eastern Horizon of the Antediluvian Genealogy -- The Seventh Generation -- The Enoch Profile -- Enoch's Walk with God and Departure from the Earth -- Superhuman Males, Human Females, Giant Offspring (Genesis 6:1-4) -- The Decree Bringing the Old World to an End -- 6. The Cataclysm -- The Hebrew-Language Version of the Great Deluge -- Why Then Did It Happen? -- Noah's Ark Sanctuary -- The Cataclysm Described -- The End in Sight -- The New Dispensation -- A New Beginning after a Bad Start -- 7. The New Humanity -- The Descendants of Noah, the New Adam -- Nimrod, First Empire-Builder -- The Unfinished Tower and the Abandoned City -- 8. From Shem to Abraham, From Myth to History -- Epilogue: Towards a Biblical Theology of Creation -- Is There an Old Testament Theology of Creation? -- Genesis 1 and Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55) -- Old Creation, New Creation in Paul. 
505 8 |a Christ, the Wisdom of God -- The Dark Side of Creation -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z. 
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