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Introduction -- Structure and content -- Composition -- Theology -- Suggested readings on Genesis -- Commentaries -- Literary studies -- Feminist studies -- Sociological and anthropological studies -- Additional monographs and articles of interest -- Commentary part one: the primeval history: Genesis 1-11 -- Genesis 1:1-2:3 : creation overture -- Genesis 2:4--3:24 : human origins, part 1: the garden of paradise -- Genesis 4:1-26 : human origins, part 2: Cain, Abel, and the first human institutions -- Genesis 5:1-32 : the scroll of Adam's descendants -- Genesis 6:1-8 : divine-human marriages, and reasons for the flood -- Genesis 6:9--9:29 : the great flood -- Genesis 10:1-32 : table of nations -- Genesis 11:1-9 : the Tower of Babel -- Genesis 11:10-26 : genealogy of Shem -- Commentary part two : ancestral narratives : Genesis 12-50 -- Genesis 11:27--12:9 : call of Abram -- Genesis 12:10-20 : sojourn in Egypt -- Genesis 13:1-18 : Abram and Lot separate -- Genesis 14:1-24 : the battle of Siddim Valley and its aftermath -- Genesis 15:1-21 : promises confirmed by word and covenant -- Genesis 16:1-16 : Hagar and Ishmael -- Genesis 17:1-27 : covenant details -- Genesis 18:1-19:38 : Yahweh visits Hebron, then Sodom and Gomorrah -- Genesis 20:1-18 : Abraham and Abimelech, King of Gerar -- Genesis 21:1-34 : Isaac, Ishmael, and the covenant at Beer-Sheba -- Genesis 22:1-24 : the testing of Abraham -- Genesis 23:1-20 : death of Sarah -- Genesis 24:1-67 : the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah -- Genesis 25:1-18 : death of Abraham -- Genesis 25:19-34 : Jacob and Esau -- Genesis 26:1-35 : Isaac the patriarch -- Genesis 27:1-46 : Jacob steals Esau's blessing -- Genesis 28:1-22 : Jacob at Bethel -- Genesis 29:1--31:55 : Jacob in Paddan-Aram -- Genesis 32:1-32 : Jacob at the Jabbok -- Genesis 33:1-20 : Jacob and Esau meet -- Genesis 34:1-31 : Shechem and Dinah -- Genesis 35:1-29 : Jacob's return to Bethel and to Isaac -- Genesis 36:1-43 : Esau the father of Edom -- Genesis 37:1-36 : Joseph and his brothers -- Genesis 38:1-30 : Judah and Tamar -- Genesis 39:1-23 : Joseph in Potiphar's house -- Genesis 40:1-41:57 : master of dreams, master of Egypt -- Genesis 42:1-45:28 : the sons of Jacob are reunited -- Genesis 46:1-47:31 : Jacob settles in Goshen -- Genesis 48:1-22 : Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh -- Genesis 49:1-33 : the twelve tribes of Israel -- Genesis 50:1-26 : burial of Jacob and death of Joseph. |
