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This volume collects the best of recent research and classic essays on the Primeval History, including several articles that have not appeared heretofore in English. The articles provide students and scholars with easy access to significant scholarship illuminating both the world outside the text and the world within the text.
Series PrefaceEditors’ PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionRichard S. Hess - One Hundred Fifty Years of Comparative Studies on Genesis 1-11: An OverviewDavid Toshio Tsumura - Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An IntroductionRichard S. Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative LiteraturePart 1: Ancient Near Eastern and Comparative ApproachesG. Castellino - The Origins of Civilization according to Biblical and Cuneiform TextsW. G. Lambert - A New Look at the Babylonian Background of GenesisA. R. Millard - A New Babylonian ‘Genesis’ StoryThorkild Jacobsen - The Eridu GenesisPatrick D. Miller Jr. - Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: A Study in Comparative MythologyIsaac M. Kikawada - The Double Creation of Mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2E. A. Speiser - The Rivers of ParadiseAbraham Malamat - King Lists of the Old Babylonian Period and Biblical GenealogiesRobert R. Wilson - The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent ResearchRykle Borger - The Incantation Series Bit Meseri and Enoch’s Ascension to HeavenJ. Simons - The ‘Table of Nations’ (Genesis 10): Its General Structure and MeaningD. J. Wiseman - Genesis 10: Some Archaeological ConsiderationI. J. Gelb - The Name of BabylonE. A. Spier - In Search of NimrodSamuel Noah Kramer - The ‘Babel of Tongues’: A Sumerian VersionPart 2: Literary and Linguistic ApproachesD. J. A. Clines - Theme in Genesis 1-11David Toshio Tsumura - The Earth in Genesis 1Phyllis A. Bird - ‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Genesis 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of CreationJerome T. Walsh - Genesis 2:4b-3:24: A Synchronic ApproachAlan Jon Hauser - Genesis 2-3: The Theme of Intimacy and AlienationGordon J. Wenham - Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden StoryS. Gevirtz - Lamech’s Song to His Wives (Genesis 4:23-24)Bernhard W. Anderson - From Analysis to Synthesis: The Interpretation of Genesis 1-11Gordon J. Wenham - The Coherence of the Flood NarrativeJ. M. Sasson - The ‘Tower of Babel’ as a Clue to the Redactional Structuring of the Primeval History (Genesis 1:1-11:9)Index of AuthoritiesIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Scripture