Genesis: An Introduction and Study Guide: A Past for a People in Need of a Future - Hardcover

by Megan Warner (Author), Adrian H. Curtis (Editor)

This study guide introduces students to the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Megan Warner examines the book's structure and characteristics and covers the latest Biblical scholarship, including historical and interpretive issues.

Discussing the nature of Genesis, its creation and purpose and its position within the Hebrew Bible, the themes and theology of creation/uncreation and promise/impossibility, Warner culminates with a number of approaches in which Genesis can be read in the postmodern world, from intersectional and intertextual to political and ecological.

With suggestions of further reading at the end of each chapter, this guide is an essential accompaniment to study of the Book of Genesis.

Author Biography

George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis Emeritus at the University of Manchester, UK and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Chester; he is known mostly for his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls.