Brenner, Athalya. Lee, Archie Chi Chung. Yee, Gale A. 1949- text bibliography mnu Minneapolis Fortress Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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xvi, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Part I. Beginnings : The Creation Revisited : -- 1. A critical assessment of the creation mandate in Genesis 1:26-28 and its human rights implications for Nigeria / Amadi Ahiamadu -- 2. The Genesis creation accounts : an African background / David Tuesday Adamo -- 3. The tree of life as a female symbol? / Athalya Brenner -- 4. History or his story? : ideology of the body in the first creation narrative / Philip Venter -- 5. Sin, gender, and responsibility : a contextual interpretation of Genesis 3 / Edwin Zulu -- 6. Re-reading Genesis 1-3 in the light of ancient Chinese creation myths / Yan Lin -- 7. When the flood narrative of Genesis meets its counterpart in China : reception and challenge in cross-textual reading / Archie Chi Chung Lee -- 8. Unity and scattering : toward a holistic reading of Genesis 11:1-9 in the South African context / Mark Rathbone -- 9. Vegetarian ideology in Talmudic literature and traditional biblical exegesis / Yael Shemesh -- Part II. Redreaming with Joseph and Others : -- 10. "Here comes this dreamer" : reading Joseph the slave in multicultural and interfaith contexts / Carole R. Fontaine -- 11. Joseph's journey from trauma to resolution / Meira Polliack 12. "Leadership and land" : a very contextual interpretation of Genesis 37-50 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Gerald West and Thulani Ndlazi -- 13. "Same bed, different dreams" : an engendered reading of families in migration in Genesis and Hong Kong / Wai Ching (Angela) Wong -- Part III. Issues of Gender, Family, and Class : -- 14. The case of Judah and Tamar in the contemporary Israeli context : a relevant interpolation / Yairah Amit -- 15. Characterizations, comedy, and catastrophe : divine/human relations, emotions, and rules of law / Cheryl a. Kirk-Duggan -- 16. Reading Hagar in contexts : from exegesis to inter-contextual analysis / Kari Latvus -- 17. The African wife of Abraham : an African reading of Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:8-21 / David Tuesday Adamo and Erivwierho Francis Eghwubare. edited by Athalya Brenner, Archie Chi Chung Lee, and Gale A. Yee,. Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-325) and indexes. Criticism, interpretation, etc BS1235.52 .G47 2010 222/.1106089 9780800659998 (hpb) 0800659996 (alk. paper) 2009029714 DLC 170714 20250312110542.0 15827270