Genesis
- ISBN-10
- 0800659996
- ISBN-13
- 9780800659998
- Series
- Genesis
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Authors
- Gale A. Yee, Athalya Brenner, Archie Chi Chung Lee
Description
The Texts @ Contexts series presents cutting-edge scholarship on select books of the Bible from authors writing from a rich array of social, cultural, and ethnic locations, all participants in the Society of Biblical Literature's Contextual Biblical Interpretation Section. Genesis foregrounds cultural readings of subjects including ancestry and immigration, dreams and naming, Diaspora and exile, leadership and land, feuds and godliness.
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