Genesis 1-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentary | AYBC)

by Ronald Hendel

Publisher:

Yale University Press

, 2024

Overview

The 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.

Key Features

• Explores 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
• Provides an extensive introduction
• Draws on archaeological discoveries from Israel and the ancient Near East

Product Details

• Title: Genesis 1–11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
• Author: Ronald Hendel
• Series: Anchor Yale Bible
• Volume: 1A
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 466
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis 1-11 › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780300149739, 0300149735
• Resource ID: LLS:ANCHOR01GE11
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-21T17:41:38Z

About Ronald Hendel

Ronald Hendel is the Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor in chief of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition, the coauthor of How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?, and the author of Remembering Abraham.