Post 325. What is Genesis 2:4b--3:24 about?
UNITED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY.
BIBLICAL STUDIES I.
Essay: 1st Term. Date Due:
Tuesday May 5, 1987...... 2.00 p.m.
( Essays to be lodged with the U.F.T. Office ).
An essay of ........ words to be written on the following topic:
What is Genesis 2:4b--3:24 about?
Discuss some recent reflections
( see titles below )
on these chapters
in the light of a standard commentary or commentaries
( von Rad, Vawter, Davidson, Westerman ),
and, most important,
of the text itself.
D.R.G. Beattie, ”What is Genesis 2-3 about? ”Expos Times 92 (1980 ) 8-10.
R.E. Williams, “Genesis 3-- an epitaph ” Expos Times 92 (1981 ) 339.
John Baker, “ Thye Myth of Man’s Fall-- A Reappraisal ” Expos Times
92 (1981 ) 235-37.
J.G. Williams, “ Genesis 3 ” Interpretation 35 ( 1981 ) 274-79.
................................... S.J.
March 10, 1987.
Authors of and commentaries prescribed in Essay’s Title--:
Vawter B. “ On Genesis “ A New Reading, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964 DK 35V391
Vawter B. ‘ A Path through Genesis “ DK 30 V391
Rad, G. Von “ Genesis “ rev.ed., London SCM 1972 DK 38 R 124 E
Westerman, C. “ Creation “, London, SPCK, 1975
Initially planned Bibliography ( for initial reference only ):
Tillich “ Dynamics of Faith “, Harper & Row,
pages 12-16: Faith and Holy; pages 41-54 Symbols of Faith;
chapter V ( pages 85-89......89 in particular ).
Extracted from Bruce Vawter’s own bibliography:
Westerman, C. “ Genesis ”
Umberto Cassuto “ From Adam to Noah & from Noah to Abraham ”,
Jerusalem : Magness Press & Oxford University Press, 1953-64.
( He rejected the ‘Documentary Approach ’ ).
E.A. Speiser “ Genesis ”, Anchor Bible I. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
Gerard Von Rad “ Genesis ”.
Robert Davidson “ Genesis 1--11”.
Benno Jacob “ Genesis ”, N.Y. KTAV Publishing House.
( also his “ Abridged Commentary ” ).
Herman Gunkel “ Genesis ” Gottingen: VanderHoeck & Ruprecht, 1964 );
in German..........Introduction: “The Legends of Genesis ”, translated into English,
N.Y. Shocken Books; it provides a good initiation into the literary forms of Genesis and their spirit.
James B. Pritchard “ Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament ”; 3rd. edition, Princeton University Press, 1969.
Theodor H. Gaster “ Myth, Legend & Custom in the O.T. ” N.Y. Harper & Row, 1969.
Yohanan Aharoni “ The Land of the Bible ” Philadelphia: Westminster, 1967.
Ignatius Hunt “ The World of the Patriarchs ” N.Y.: Prentice--Hall, 1967.
“ The New American Bible”
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CONTENT: 00
A Selected Bibliography: i--ii
General Intoduction: 0
A-: Reference 9-: An Analysis and Discussion.
Introduction-: A, B [1], B [2]........1
Analysis of Part A--A.......1--6
Analysis of Part A--B [1].......6
Analysis of part A--B [2].......6
B-: Reference 10-: A Discussion.
Introduction-: A, B...........7
Discussion of A..........7--9
Discussion of B.........10--11
C-: Reference 11-: An Analysis and Discussion.
Introduction...........12
Analysis...........12--13
Discussion..........14--16
D-: Reference 12-: A Discussion.
Content-: @ 1--@ 8.............17a
Discussion............17--24
Conclusions-:
(i) What is Gen. 2:4b---3:24 about ?
(ii) Difficulties re. Westerman’s
Existential approach.............25--32
FIG.1-: An Alternative to and extension of Westerman’s
‘Genesis-Continuus ’.............. 32,
(see bibliographical re. 4 ).
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