Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1- Precursors to the Priestly Creation Account (Gen
1:1-2:3)
Chapter 2- Precursors to the Eden Narrative (Gen 2:4b-3:24)
Chapter 3- The Formation of Narratives about Adam and Eve's
Descendants (Genesis 4)
Chapter 4- The Book of the Descendants of Adam (Genesis 5; 11:10-26
and Related Texts)
Chapter 5- The First Noah and the Story of Sons of God and
Daughters of Humanity (Gen 5:29; 6:1-4; 9:18-27)
Chapter 6- Precursors to the Flood Narrative (Gen 6:5-9:17)
Chapter 7- Aftermath to the Flood: Layers in the Treatment of
Noah's Descendants (Gen 9:18-11:9)
Chapter 8- The Non-P Primeval History: Layers and Dating
Chapter 9- The Priestly Primeval History and Conflation of P and
Non-P: Layers and Dating
Bibliography
Select Index of Primary Text Citations
Index of Subjects
David M. Carr is Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological
Seminary in New York. His previous publications include Holy
Resilience: The Bible's Traumatic Origins (2014), The Formation of
the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction (Oxford University Press,
2011), An Introduction to the Old Testament: Sacred Texts and
Imperial Contexts of the Hebrew Bible (2010); An Introduction to
the Bible: Sacred Texts and Imperial
Contexts (2010); Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of
Scripture and Literature (Oxford 2005); The Erotic Word: Sexuality,
Spirituality and the Bible (Oxford, 2003); Reading the Fractures of
Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches
(1996); and From D to Q: A Study of Early Jewish Interpretations of
Solomon's Dream at Gibeon (1991).
"All of the methodological precision, understanding of the ancient
world, and exegetical incisiveness that we have come to expect from
David Carr is on display in this comprehensive and
thought-provoking exploration of Genesis 1-11. This is Carr at his
best." -- Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale
University
"The Primeval History in the book of Genesis is probably the most
well-known text in world literature and has been the subject of
many studies. Nevertheless, David Carr offers a fresh and
innovative approach to the first eleven chapters of the Bible,
reconstructing brilliantly their history of composition in a
constant dialogue with international scholarship. The book offers
the most up-to-date discussion of exegetical problems in Genesis
1-11 and is a
must-read for anyone studying these biblical chapters." -- Konrad
Schmid, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, University
of Zurich
"At first glance, David Carr presents a series of highly
interesting essays that offer an equally familiar and fresh
approach to Gen 1-11. But the whole is more than the sum of its
parts, it is a well-founded thesis on the formation of biblical
primeval history. Here and there one may interpret the complexities
of the biblical text in a different way, but one will not be able
to avoid dealing with David Carr's well-presented and balanced
arguments." -- Jan
Christian Gertz, Full Professor of Old Testament Studies / Hebrew
Bible, Universität Heidelberg
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