Genesis 1-11

Text and commentary alternate with each other in the style of the series.

Robert Davidson (Author)

9780521097604, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 July 1973

132 pages
20 x 12.6 x 1 cm, 0.126 kg

Chapters 1–11 of Genesis are like a poetic prologue to the early history of the Jewish people and to their religion. For Christianity also they later fulfil a similar purpose. Professor Davidson takes these chapters as a separate unity, comments on them, and explains their religious significance and their place in the Bible as a whole. Introductory sections on the sources and purpose of the book, and the meaning of myth, lead straight into the text and commentary which alternate with each other in the style of the series.

The footnotes to the New English Bible text
Behind the book
The sources of the book
The purpose of Genesis 1–11
The meaning of myth
A note on further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]