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Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation: A Discursive Commentary on Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new commentary on Genesis 1–11, the so-called “primeval history” in which the account of creation is given. Blenkinsopp argues that, from a biblical point of view, creation cannot be restricted to a single event, nor to two versions of an event, as depicted in Genesis 1–3. Rather, it must take in the whole period of creation arranged in the sequence of creation,...

Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Persian and Medes in 539 BC. Equally feasible, however, would be the early years of Iranian–Achaemenid rule when the return to Judah of Judaean deportees or their descendants first became possible. In favour of this somewhat later date would be the presentation in P of Abraham as the ideal immigrant, and the prediction, only in the P account of Israel’s ancestors (Gen. 17:6; 35:11), that kings would issue from Abraham’s line (Blenkinsopp
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