Creation Uncreation Recreation A discursive commentary on Genesis 1 11 1st Edition by Joseph Blenkinsopp ISBN 0567574555 9780567574558

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ISBN 10: 0567574555

ISBN 13: 9780567574558

Author:  Joseph Blenkinsopp 

Creation, Un-creation, Re-creation: A discursive commentary on Genesis 1-11 1st Edition: 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 event (as depicted in Genesis 1-3) but, rather, must take in the whole period of creation arranged in the sequence: creation – uncreation – recreation (as can be derived from Genesis 1-11).

Through the course of the commentary, presented in continuous discussion rather than in a rigid verse-by-verse form, Blenkinsopp takes into account pre-modern interpretations of the texts, especially in the Jewish interpretative tradition, as well as modern, historical-critical interpretations. Blenkinsopp works from the perspective of acknowledging the text’s literary integrity as an ‘authored’ work, rather than focusing simply on the its background in various sources (whilst of course paying due attention to those sources). This enables Blenkinsopp’s engaging discussion to focus upon the literary and theological artistry of the material at hand.

 

Creation, Un-creation, Re-creation: A discursive commentary on Genesis 1-11 1st Edition Table of contents:

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
• Christ, the Wisdom of God
• The Dark Side of Creation

 

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