Discovering Genesis: Content, Interpretation, Reception

by Iain W. Provan

Book Overview

Concise, student-friendly introduction to Genesis

Iain Provan here offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to the book of Genesis, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates, and historical reception.

Drawing on a range of methodological approaches (author-, text-, and reader-centered) as complementary rather than mutually exclusive ways of understanding, Discovering Genesis encourages students to dig deeply into the theological and historical questions raised by the text. It provides a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretive debates, focusing especially on the reception history of the biblical text, a subject of growing interest to students and scholars of the Bible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802872379
• ISBN13: 9780802872371
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"