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This guide is divided presented into three chapters, with chapters two and three being the main sections. Chapter One puts Genesis 1–11 into context. Chapter Two is concerned primarily with the hermeneutical debate currently centered on Genesis 1–11. Chapter Three is a treatment of the text of Genesis 1–11 using the historical-critical method.

death and resurrection, arguing that it was a liturgy used at the New Year festival when the Israelite kings suffered ritual death and resurrection. This pattern of death and resurrection was also held to be present in the Psalms and in Isa. 52:13–53:12, making possible a link between the suffering, royal Messiah of the Old Testament and the crucified and risen Messiah of the New Testament (Bentzen, 1970). A different viewpoint was that exemplified by the German scholar von Rad (in Anderson 1984,
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