Genesis 1-11
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Ronald Hendel
Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries
488 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in, 13 b-w illus.
Hardcover
9780300149739
Published: Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024
$85.00eBook
9780300175363
Published: Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024
$85.00The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel
The first eleven chapters of Genesis narrate the origin of the universe; the creation of the first human beings; the beginnings of moral reasoning, society, and culture; and the cataclysmic global flood. By showing how life and civilization came into being, Genesis 1–11 offers a richly drawn map for understanding the world as a meaningful cosmos and an ethical guide for human purpose and responsibility within it.
The culmination of over thirty years of research, this long-awaited study by leading Genesis scholar Ronald Hendel is the first comprehensive scholarly commentary on Genesis 1–11 in a generation. Drawing on archaeological discoveries from Israel and the ancient Near East as well as contemporary methods of scholarship, it presents a multilayered view of the classic text. The extensive introduction, notes, and comments explore ancient textual versions and editions, historical contexts, literary style and design, compositional history, cosmology, ethics, and the book’s interpretive life in Judaism and Christianity. Featuring numerous illustrations, this engagingly written commentary is an indispensable, field-defining guide to the first eleven chapters of the Bible.
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