Genesis: A Commentary (Revised Edition)

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Professor von Rad has utilized the results of literary criticism and form criticism in producing a commentary that is exegetical, historical, and above all, theological. In every phase of the panoramic pageant the reader sees the God of Israel reaffirming the terms of his covenant and working out his great historical purposes in spite of, and even through, the disobedient acts of willful, headstrong men. Abbreviations......Page 9 Publisher's Note......Page 10 Foreword to the First Edition......Page 11 I. Genesis as part of the Hexateuch......Page 12 2. The three narrative sources......Page 23 3. The theological problem of the Yahwist......Page 28 4. Hermeneutical problems of the Genesis narratives......Page 30 II. The Biblical Primeval History......Page 43 I. The creation of the world. Chs. 1.1 to 2.4a (P)......Page 44 2. Genealogical table of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah. Ch. 5......Page 65 3. The Yahwistic story of Paradise. Ch. 2·4b- 25......Page 71 4. The story of the Fall. ChI 3......Page 84 5. The story of Cain and Abel. Ch. 4.1-16......Page 100 6. The genealogy of the Kenites. Ch. 4.17-26......Page 107 7. The angel marriages. Ch. 6.1-4......Page 111 8. The prologue to the Flood. Ch. 6.5-8......Page 114 9. The Flood (J)......Page 116 10. The epilogue to the Flood. Ch. 8.21-22......Page 119 II. The Flood (P)......Page 123 12. God's covenant with Noah. Ch. 9.1-17......Page 128 13. Noah's curse and blessing. Ch. 9.18-29......Page 132 14. The table of nations (P)......Page 137 15. Fragments of the Yahwistic table of nations......Page 143 16. The story of the Tower of Babel and the confusion oflanguage. Ch. 11.1-9......Page 145 17· The fathers from Shem to Abraham. (P) Ch. 11.10-27.31-32......Page 153 18. Abraham's origin and call. (J) Chs. 11.28-30; 12.1-3......Page 156 19· Abraham's departure. (J) Ch. 12.4-9......Page 159 III. The Biblical Patriarchal History......Page 162