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I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood

Ancient Near Eastern,Literary and Lingusitic Appraoches to Genesis 1-11 [Paperback]

by Richard S. Hess Hess, David Toshio Tsumura Tsumura

Author
Richard S. Hess Hess
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Published
July 2012

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This 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.

Introduction
1. Richard S. Hess - One Hundred Fifty Years of Comparative Studies on Genesis 1-11: An Overview
2. David Toshio Tsumura - Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction
3. Richard S. Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature

Part 1: Ancient Near Eastern and Comparative Approaches
4. G. Castellino - The Origins of Civilization according to Biblical and Cuneiform Texts
5. W. G. Lambert - A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis
6. A. R. Millard - A New Babylonian "Genesis" Story
7. Thorkild Jacobsen - The Eridu Genesis
8. Patrick D. Miller Jr. - Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: A Study in Comparative Mythology
9. Isaac M. Kikawada - The Double Creation of Mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2
10. A. Speiser - The Rivers of Paradise
11. Abraham Malamat - King Lists of the Old Babylonian Period and Biblical Genealogies
12. Robert R. Wilson - The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research
13. Rykle Borger - The Incantation Series Bit Meseri and Enoch's Ascension to Heaven
14. J. Simons - The "Table of Nations" (Genesis 10): Its General Structure and Meaning
15. D. J. Wiseman - Genesis 10: Some Archaeological Consideration
16. I. J. Gelb - The Name of Babylon
17. E. A. Spier - In Search of Nimrod
18. Samuel Noah Kramer - The "Babel of Tongues": A Sumerian Version

Part 2: Literary and Linguistic Approaches
19. D. J. A. Clines - Theme in Genesis 1-11
20. David Toshio Tsumura - The Earth in Genesis 1
21. Phyllis A. Bird - "Male and Female He Created Them": Genesis 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation
22. Jerome T. Walsh - Genesis 2:4b-3:24: A Synchronic Approach
23. Alan Jon Hauser - Genesis 2-3: The Theme of Intimacy and Alienation
24. Gordon J. Wenham - Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story
25. S. Gevirtz - Lamech's Song to His Wives (Genesis 4:23-24)
26. Bernhard W. Anderson - From Analysis to Synthesis: The Interpretation of Genesis 1-11
27. Gordon J. Wenham - The Coherence of the Flood Narrative
28. J. M. Sasson - The "Tower of Babel" as a Clue to the Redactional Structuring of the Primeval History (Genesis 1:1-11:9)