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Discovering Genesis

- Content, Interpretation, Reception

About Discovering Genesis

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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780802872371
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 226
  • Published:
  • April 30, 2016
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x0 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 339 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: December 12, 2024
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025

Description of Discovering Genesis

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.

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