Genesis 1-15 (Word Biblical Commentary)

First in a series. For scholars, teachers, seminary students, working ministers, anyone who seeks to build a theological understanding of scripture upon a solid foundation of scholarship. In this first volume, on Genesis I-14, topics include: Genesis in recent research and an evaluation of current critical positions. An analysis of the principal source hypotheses from the early 19th century to the present, the new literary criticism and its relationship to source criticism, and the theological relationship of Genesis 1-11 to ancient Near Eastern ideas, to the rest of the Pentateuch and to modern thought.