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Uniform Title Bible. Genesis. English. Mitchell. 1996.
Title Genesis : a new translation of the classic Biblical stories / by Stephen Mitchell.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1996]
©1996

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  222 GENESIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  222.11 B47    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description lvi, 161 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 122).
Summary An examination of the Book of genesis reassesses the familiar biblical stories of Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, and others in light of their relevance to the modern world.
Contents The Creation (according to P) -- The Creation (according to J) -- Cain and Abel (J) -- Seth ; the descendants of Cain (J) -- The descendants of Lamech (J) -- Genealogies (P) -- The gods and the women (J) -- The Flood (according to J) -- The Flood (according to P) -- Noah's drunkenness (J) -- Genealogies (P,J) -- The Tower of Babel -- Genealogies (P) -- The promise to Abram (J) -- Wife and sister (version 1 : J) -- Abram and Lot (J) -- Abram and the kings (late redactor, using three early sources) -- The promise to Abram : descendants (late source) -- The promise to Abram : land (late source) -- Hagar and Ishmael (according to J) -- The covenant with Abraham (P) -- Abraham and the three visitors (J) -- Abraham questions the destruction of Sodom (late source) -- The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (J) -- Lot's daughters (J) -- Wife and sister (version 2 : E) -- The family of Abraham (P, R, late source) -- Hagar and Ishmael (according to E) -- Beer-sheba (version 1 : E) -- Beer-sheba (version 2 : J) -- The binding of Isaac (E) -- The cave of Machpelah (P) -- The betrothal of Rebecca (late source) -- The death of Abraham ; Ishmael's descendants (P) -- Jacob and Esau (J) -- Wife and sister (version 3 : late source) -- Isaac and Abimelech ; Beer-sheba (version 3 : late source) -- Esau cheated of the blessing (why Jacob was sent to Laban, according to J) -- Why Jacob was sent to Laban (according to P) -- Jacob at Beth-El (according to J) -- Jacob at Beth-El (according to E) -- Jacob and Rachel, and Leah (J) -- The birth of Jacob's children (J) -- Jacob outwits Laban (J) -- Jacob's flight (E?) -- Jacob prepares to meet Esau (J) -- Jacob wrestles with God and becomes Israel (according to J) -- The meeting of Jacob and Esau (J) -- Arrival in Canaan (P) -- The rape of Dinah (early source) -- The return of Beth-El (R) -- Jacob becomes Israel (according to P) -- The death of Rachel (J?) -- Reuben sleeps with Bilhah (J : fragmentary) -- Jacob's sons ; the death of Isaac (P) -- Genealogies (P) -- Judah and Tamar (early source) -- Joseph and his brothers (early source).
Subject Bible stories, English -- Genesis.
Added Author Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
ISBN 0060172495
9780060172497
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