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Part I - Composition and Structure of Genesis

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The Cambridge Companion to Genesis , pp. 9 - 118
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Maman, Aharon, Cohen, Mordechai, and Klein-Braslavy, Sarah, “The Flourishing Era of Jewish Exegesis in Spain.” Pages 261–320 in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. I.2: The Middles Ages Edited by Sæbø., Magne Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000).Google Scholar
McKane, William. Selected Christian Hebraists. Cambridge: Cambridge: University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Morrow, Jeffrey L. Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016).Google Scholar
Reventlow, Henning Graf. “Between Humanism and Enlightenment: Morality, Reason and History as Factors in Biblical Interpretation.” Pages 641–56 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 3: From 1450 to 1750. Edited by Cameron., Euan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Riches, John, ed. The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 4: From 1750 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. From Astruc to Zimmerli: Old Testament Scholarship in Three Centuries. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.Google Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. Kritiker und Exegeten: Porträtskizzen zur vier Jahrhunderten alttestamentlicher Wissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berndt, Rainer. “The School of St. Victor in Paris.” Pages 467–95 in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. I.2: The Middles Ages Edited by Sæbø., Magne Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.Google Scholar
Borgen, Peder Johan. Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time, SNT 86. Leiden: Brill, 1997.Google Scholar
Cameron, Euan. “The Bible and the Early Sense of History.” Pages 657–85 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 3: From 1450 to 1750. Edited by Cameron., Euan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Evans, Craig A., Lohr, Joel N., and Petersen, David L., eds. The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, VTS 152 (Leiden: Brill, 2012).Google Scholar
Finkelberg, Margalit and Stroumsa, Guy G., eds. Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 2. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frampton, Travis L. Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible. London: T&T Clark, 2006.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 3rd ed.,1910, 1969); English translation: Genesis. Translated by M. E. Biddle. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Hendel, Ronald. The Book of Genesis: A Biography, Lives of Great Religious Books (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maman, Aharon, Cohen, Mordechai, and Klein-Braslavy, Sarah, “The Flourishing Era of Jewish Exegesis in Spain.” Pages 261–320 in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. I.2: The Middles Ages Edited by Sæbø., Magne Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000).Google Scholar
McKane, William. Selected Christian Hebraists. Cambridge: Cambridge: University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Morrow, Jeffrey L. Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016).Google Scholar
Reventlow, Henning Graf. “Between Humanism and Enlightenment: Morality, Reason and History as Factors in Biblical Interpretation.” Pages 641–56 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 3: From 1450 to 1750. Edited by Cameron., Euan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Riches, John, ed. The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 4: From 1750 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. From Astruc to Zimmerli: Old Testament Scholarship in Three Centuries. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.Google Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. Kritiker und Exegeten: Porträtskizzen zur vier Jahrhunderten alttestamentlicher Wissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berndt, Rainer. “The School of St. Victor in Paris.” Pages 467–95 in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. I.2: The Middles Ages Edited by Sæbø., Magne Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.Google Scholar
Borgen, Peder Johan. Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time, SNT 86. Leiden: Brill, 1997.Google Scholar
Cameron, Euan. “The Bible and the Early Sense of History.” Pages 657–85 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 3: From 1450 to 1750. Edited by Cameron., Euan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Evans, Craig A., Lohr, Joel N., and Petersen, David L., eds. The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, VTS 152 (Leiden: Brill, 2012).Google Scholar
Finkelberg, Margalit and Stroumsa, Guy G., eds. Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 2. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frampton, Travis L. Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible. London: T&T Clark, 2006.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 3rd ed.,1910, 1969); English translation: Genesis. Translated by M. E. Biddle. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Hendel, Ronald. The Book of Genesis: A Biography, Lives of Great Religious Books (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maman, Aharon, Cohen, Mordechai, and Klein-Braslavy, Sarah, “The Flourishing Era of Jewish Exegesis in Spain.” Pages 261–320 in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. I.2: The Middles Ages Edited by Sæbø., Magne Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000).Google Scholar
McKane, William. Selected Christian Hebraists. Cambridge: Cambridge: University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Morrow, Jeffrey L. Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016).Google Scholar
Reventlow, Henning Graf. “Between Humanism and Enlightenment: Morality, Reason and History as Factors in Biblical Interpretation.” Pages 641–56 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 3: From 1450 to 1750. Edited by Cameron., Euan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Riches, John, ed. The New Cambridge History of the Bible. Vol. 4: From 1750 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. From Astruc to Zimmerli: Old Testament Scholarship in Three Centuries. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.Google Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. Kritiker und Exegeten: Porträtskizzen zur vier Jahrhunderten alttestamentlicher Wissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Blum, Erhard. “The Jacob Tradition.” Pages 181–211 in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Edited by Craig, A. Evans, Lohr, Joel N., and Petersen, David L.. VTSup 152. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte. WMANT 57. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1984.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. Reading the Fractures of Genesis. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.Google Scholar
Gertz, Jan C. “The Formation of the Primeval History.” Pages 107–36 in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, Edited by Evans, Craig A., Lohr, Joel N, and Petersen, David L. VTSup 152. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Foreword by Ernest W. Nicholson. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Translation of the 9th printing (1977) of Genesis: übersetzt und erklärt: Mit einem Geleitwort von Walter Baumgartner. 3rd ed. HKAT 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910.Google Scholar
Hartenstein, Friedhelm, and Schmid, Konrad, eds. Abschied von der Priesterschrift? Zum Stand der Pentateuchdebatte. VWGTh 40. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2015 (English translation forthcoming in SBL Ancient Israel and its Literature Series, Atlanta: SBL Press).Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rendtorff, Rolf. The Problem of the Process of the Transmission in the Pentateuch. Translated by John J. Scullion. JSOTSup 89. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990. Translation of Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem des Pentateuch. BZAW 147. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976.Google Scholar
Römer, Thomas C. “The Elusive Yahwist: A Short History of Research.” Pages 9–27 in A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Edited by Thomas, B. Dozeman and Schmid, Konrad. SBLSymS 34. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Schmid, Konrad. Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel’s Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible. Translated by James D. Nogalski. Siphrut 3. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. Translation of Erzväter und Exodus: Untersuchungen zur doppelten Begründung der Ursprünge Israels innerhalb der Geschichtsbücher des Alten Testaments. WMANT 81. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner, 1999.Google Scholar
Van Seters, John. Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1992.Google Scholar
Ska, Jean-Louis. “Some Groundwork on Genesis 15.” Pages 67–81 in The Exegesis of the Pentateuch: Exegetical Studies and Basic Questions. By Ska, Jean-Louis. FAT 66. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. “The Jacob Tradition.” Pages 181–211 in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Edited by Craig, A. Evans, Lohr, Joel N., and Petersen, David L.. VTSup 152. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte. WMANT 57. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1984.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. Reading the Fractures of Genesis. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.Google Scholar
Gertz, Jan C. “The Formation of the Primeval History.” Pages 107–36 in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, Edited by Evans, Craig A., Lohr, Joel N, and Petersen, David L. VTSup 152. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Foreword by Ernest W. Nicholson. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Translation of the 9th printing (1977) of Genesis: übersetzt und erklärt: Mit einem Geleitwort von Walter Baumgartner. 3rd ed. HKAT 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910.Google Scholar
Hartenstein, Friedhelm, and Schmid, Konrad, eds. Abschied von der Priesterschrift? Zum Stand der Pentateuchdebatte. VWGTh 40. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2015 (English translation forthcoming in SBL Ancient Israel and its Literature Series, Atlanta: SBL Press).Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rendtorff, Rolf. The Problem of the Process of the Transmission in the Pentateuch. Translated by John J. Scullion. JSOTSup 89. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990. Translation of Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem des Pentateuch. BZAW 147. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976.Google Scholar
Römer, Thomas C. “The Elusive Yahwist: A Short History of Research.” Pages 9–27 in A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Edited by Thomas, B. Dozeman and Schmid, Konrad. SBLSymS 34. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Schmid, Konrad. Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel’s Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible. Translated by James D. Nogalski. Siphrut 3. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. Translation of Erzväter und Exodus: Untersuchungen zur doppelten Begründung der Ursprünge Israels innerhalb der Geschichtsbücher des Alten Testaments. WMANT 81. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner, 1999.Google Scholar
Van Seters, John. Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1992.Google Scholar
Ska, Jean-Louis. “Some Groundwork on Genesis 15.” Pages 67–81 in The Exegesis of the Pentateuch: Exegetical Studies and Basic Questions. By Ska, Jean-Louis. FAT 66. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. “The Jacob Tradition.” Pages 181–211 in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Edited by Craig, A. Evans, Lohr, Joel N., and Petersen, David L.. VTSup 152. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte. WMANT 57. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1984.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. Reading the Fractures of Genesis. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.Google Scholar
Gertz, Jan C. “The Formation of the Primeval History.” Pages 107–36 in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, Edited by Evans, Craig A., Lohr, Joel N, and Petersen, David L. VTSup 152. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Foreword by Ernest W. Nicholson. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Translation of the 9th printing (1977) of Genesis: übersetzt und erklärt: Mit einem Geleitwort von Walter Baumgartner. 3rd ed. HKAT 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910.Google Scholar
Hartenstein, Friedhelm, and Schmid, Konrad, eds. Abschied von der Priesterschrift? Zum Stand der Pentateuchdebatte. VWGTh 40. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2015 (English translation forthcoming in SBL Ancient Israel and its Literature Series, Atlanta: SBL Press).Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rendtorff, Rolf. The Problem of the Process of the Transmission in the Pentateuch. Translated by John J. Scullion. JSOTSup 89. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990. Translation of Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem des Pentateuch. BZAW 147. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976.Google Scholar
Römer, Thomas C. “The Elusive Yahwist: A Short History of Research.” Pages 9–27 in A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Edited by Thomas, B. Dozeman and Schmid, Konrad. SBLSymS 34. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Schmid, Konrad. Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel’s Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible. Translated by James D. Nogalski. Siphrut 3. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. Translation of Erzväter und Exodus: Untersuchungen zur doppelten Begründung der Ursprünge Israels innerhalb der Geschichtsbücher des Alten Testaments. WMANT 81. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner, 1999.Google Scholar
Van Seters, John. Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1992.Google Scholar
Ska, Jean-Louis. “Some Groundwork on Genesis 15.” Pages 67–81 in The Exegesis of the Pentateuch: Exegetical Studies and Basic Questions. By Ska, Jean-Louis. FAT 66. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.Google Scholar

Select Bibliography

Blum, Erhard. Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte. WMANT 57. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1984.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Gertz, Jan Christian. “Antibabylonische Polemik im priesterlichen Schöpfungsbericht?” ZTK 106 (2009): 137–55.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis: Translated and Interpreted. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Translation of Genesis übersetzt und erklärt. HKAT 1.1. 3rd revised edition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910.Google Scholar
Köckert, Matthias. Vätergott und Väterverheißungen: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Albrecht Alt und seinen Erben. FRLANT 142. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Gerechtigkeit Gottes in der Genesis.” Pages 347–57 in Studies in the Book of Genesis: Literature, Redaction and History. Edited by Wénin., André BETL 155. Leuven: Peeters, 2001.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Das System der zwölf Stämme Israels.” Pages 163–78 in Congress Volume: Paris, 1992. Edited by Emerton, John A.. VTSup 61. Leiden: Brill, 1995.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Tatbericht und Wortbericht in der priesterschriftlichen Schöpfungserzählung.” ZTK 91 (1994): 115–33.Google Scholar
Mowinckel, Sigmund. “Das ätiologische Denken.” Pages 78–86 in Tetrateuch – Pentateuch – Hexateuch: Die Berichte über die Landnahme in den drei altisraelitischen Geschichtswerken. BZAW 90. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1964.Google Scholar
Nõmmik, Urmas. Die Vätererzählungen im Lichte höfischer Erzählkunst: Motivkritische Studien zu den Überlieferungen von Lot, Isaak, Rebekka und Jakob. FAT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022 (forthcoming).Google Scholar
Seeligmann, Isaac Leo. “Ätiologische Elemente in der biblischen Geschichtsschreibung.” Pages 77–118 in Gesammelte Studien zur Hebräischen Bibel. Edited by Blum, Erhard. FAT 41. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.Google Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. “Elements of Historical Thinking in the Old Testament.” Pages 73–98 in “The Unconquered Land” and Other Old Testament Essays: Selected Studies. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.Google Scholar
Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.Google Scholar
Westermann, Claus. “Arten der Erzählung in der Genesis.” Pages 9–91 in Forschung am Alten Testament: Gesammelte Studien. TB 24. Munich: Kaiser, 1964.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte. WMANT 57. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1984.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Gertz, Jan Christian. “Antibabylonische Polemik im priesterlichen Schöpfungsbericht?” ZTK 106 (2009): 137–55.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis: Translated and Interpreted. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Translation of Genesis übersetzt und erklärt. HKAT 1.1. 3rd revised edition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910.Google Scholar
Köckert, Matthias. Vätergott und Väterverheißungen: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Albrecht Alt und seinen Erben. FRLANT 142. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Gerechtigkeit Gottes in der Genesis.” Pages 347–57 in Studies in the Book of Genesis: Literature, Redaction and History. Edited by Wénin., André BETL 155. Leuven: Peeters, 2001.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Das System der zwölf Stämme Israels.” Pages 163–78 in Congress Volume: Paris, 1992. Edited by Emerton, John A.. VTSup 61. Leiden: Brill, 1995.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Tatbericht und Wortbericht in der priesterschriftlichen Schöpfungserzählung.” ZTK 91 (1994): 115–33.Google Scholar
Mowinckel, Sigmund. “Das ätiologische Denken.” Pages 78–86 in Tetrateuch – Pentateuch – Hexateuch: Die Berichte über die Landnahme in den drei altisraelitischen Geschichtswerken. BZAW 90. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1964.Google Scholar
Nõmmik, Urmas. Die Vätererzählungen im Lichte höfischer Erzählkunst: Motivkritische Studien zu den Überlieferungen von Lot, Isaak, Rebekka und Jakob. FAT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022 (forthcoming).Google Scholar
Seeligmann, Isaac Leo. “Ätiologische Elemente in der biblischen Geschichtsschreibung.” Pages 77–118 in Gesammelte Studien zur Hebräischen Bibel. Edited by Blum, Erhard. FAT 41. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.Google Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. “Elements of Historical Thinking in the Old Testament.” Pages 73–98 in “The Unconquered Land” and Other Old Testament Essays: Selected Studies. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.Google Scholar
Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.Google Scholar
Westermann, Claus. “Arten der Erzählung in der Genesis.” Pages 9–91 in Forschung am Alten Testament: Gesammelte Studien. TB 24. Munich: Kaiser, 1964.Google Scholar
Blum, Erhard. Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte. WMANT 57. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1984.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Gertz, Jan Christian. “Antibabylonische Polemik im priesterlichen Schöpfungsbericht?” ZTK 106 (2009): 137–55.Google Scholar
Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis: Translated and Interpreted. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. Translation of Genesis übersetzt und erklärt. HKAT 1.1. 3rd revised edition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1910.Google Scholar
Köckert, Matthias. Vätergott und Väterverheißungen: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Albrecht Alt und seinen Erben. FRLANT 142. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Gerechtigkeit Gottes in der Genesis.” Pages 347–57 in Studies in the Book of Genesis: Literature, Redaction and History. Edited by Wénin., André BETL 155. Leuven: Peeters, 2001.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Das System der zwölf Stämme Israels.” Pages 163–78 in Congress Volume: Paris, 1992. Edited by Emerton, John A.. VTSup 61. Leiden: Brill, 1995.Google Scholar
Levin, Christoph. “Tatbericht und Wortbericht in der priesterschriftlichen Schöpfungserzählung.” ZTK 91 (1994): 115–33.Google Scholar
Mowinckel, Sigmund. “Das ätiologische Denken.” Pages 78–86 in Tetrateuch – Pentateuch – Hexateuch: Die Berichte über die Landnahme in den drei altisraelitischen Geschichtswerken. BZAW 90. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1964.Google Scholar
Nõmmik, Urmas. Die Vätererzählungen im Lichte höfischer Erzählkunst: Motivkritische Studien zu den Überlieferungen von Lot, Isaak, Rebekka und Jakob. FAT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022 (forthcoming).Google Scholar
Seeligmann, Isaac Leo. “Ätiologische Elemente in der biblischen Geschichtsschreibung.” Pages 77–118 in Gesammelte Studien zur Hebräischen Bibel. Edited by Blum, Erhard. FAT 41. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.Google Scholar
Smend, Rudolf. “Elements of Historical Thinking in the Old Testament.” Pages 73–98 in “The Unconquered Land” and Other Old Testament Essays: Selected Studies. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.Google Scholar
Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.Google Scholar
Westermann, Claus. “Arten der Erzählung in der Genesis.” Pages 9–91 in Forschung am Alten Testament: Gesammelte Studien. TB 24. Munich: Kaiser, 1964.Google Scholar

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