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Whybray provides a straightforward introduction to the contents and themes of the first five books of the Bible. Designed as an entry-level textbook for colleges and seminaries, this volume makes sense of the current muddle in Pentateuchal studies and introduces students to the contributions of earlier scholars in the field. Whybray stresses the meaning of the Pentateuch in its canonical form...

Genesis 1–11 (the so-called Primeval History) has a peculiar character of its own. It depicts a world in which the supernatural is commonplace—where God (and the “sons of God,” Gen. 6:1–2) can converse and have relationships with human beings as a matter of course, and where snakes can have conversations with men and women. It begins with the creation of the world (heaven and earth) together with the heavenly bodies, the flora and fauna, and human beings, and then passes
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