Genesis 1-11: Tales of the Earliest World
Edwin Good
Stanford University Press, 2011-09-27 - 144 pages
This
book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the
opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world,
through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of
Babel, to the introduction of Abraham. Edwin M. Good offers a new
translation of and literary commentary on these chapters, approaching
the material as an ancient Hebrew book. Rather than analyzing the
chapters in light of any specific religious position, he is interested
in what the stories say and how they work as stories, indications in
them of their origins as orally performed and transmitted, and how they
do and do not connect with one another. Everyone, from those intimately
familiar with Genesis to those who have never read it before, will find
something new in
Genesis 1-11: Tales of the Earliest World.
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