Genesis as Dialogue: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Commentary

di Thomas L. Brodie (Autore)

Oxford University Press Inc, 2001

Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis - the first book of the Bible - and a foundational text of Western culture. In this new commentary, Thomas Brodie offers a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical standpoints. Brodie's work is organized around three main ideas: the first is that the primary subject of Genesis is human existence - while full of historical echoes, it is primarily a sophisticated portrayal of the progress and pitfalls of human life. His second thesis is that Genesis' basic organizational unity is binary, or diptych: building on older insights that Genesis is somehow dialogical, he argues that the entire book is composed of diptychs - accounts which, like some paintings, consist of two parts or panels. Finally, Brodie contends that many of Genesis' sources still exist, and can be identified and verified.

• Autore: Thomas L. Brodie
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc
• Anno: 2001
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 614 p.
• Dimensioni: 165 x 243 mm
• Peso: 993 gr.
• EAN: 9780195138368

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