Reading the Fractures of Genesis
Historical and Literary Approaches
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Publication
1996-06-01 - Westminster John Knox Press
Language
English
Word Count
97,000 words, Guess
Page Count
388 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7627998M
- ISBN-139780664220716
- ISBN-100664220711
- OCLC Control Number33664323
- OCLC Control Numberreadingfractures0000carr
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95046693
- LibraryThing1726364
- Goodreads1124395
Classifications
- LCCBS1235.2 .C34 1996
- DDC222/.11066
Description
In Reading the Fractures of Genesis, David M. Carr shows how understanding the history of the formation of the book of Genesis impacts a reading of the book's final form. According to Carr, a clear understanding of Genesis can be obtained only when one takes seriously its complex and fractured nature, a multivoiced text that developed over many centuries. Drawing on the best in European and North American scholarship to present this new approach to Genesis, he produces a provocative interpretation that helps to bridge the widening gap between opposing methodological camps in the study of Genesis.
First Sentence
Although biblical scholars have long agreed that the book of Genesis was created out of earlier traditions (both written and oral) through a long process termed here "transmission history," they intensely disagree right now about how much we can know about that process and how important such knowledge would be, even if it were possible.
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