Reading Genesis

Ronald Hendel is Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Hebrew Bible, a new critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, and author, most recently, of Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible (2005). Professor Hendel also serves as a columnist for the Biblical Archaeology Review.

'Whatever its title, Reading Genesis: Ten Methods is not just ten any old ways of reading this iconic book of Jewish and Christian tradition. Rather, it is ten cutting-edge ways of analyzing Genesis, ranging from reading Genesis as a literary text to Genesis as reflected in modern literature. Moreover, because each method is thoroughly explained before it is applied to the Genesis text, Reading Genesis: Ten Methods is an excellent primer for students of the Bible who want to apply these cutting-edge methodologies to other biblical books.' Susan Ackerman, Dartmouth College

• Introduction Ronald Hendel; 1. Literature Robert Alter; 2. Cultural memory Ronald Hendel; 3. Sources and redaction Robert S. Kawashima; 4. Gender and sexuality Ronald Hendel, Chana Kronfeld and Ilana Pardes; 5. Inner-biblical interpretation Yair Zakovitch; 6. Rabbinic interpretation Dina Stein; 7. Interpretation in the early church Richard A. Layton; 8. Translation Naomi Seidman; 9. Modern literature Ilana Pardes; 10. Modern theology John J. Collins.