Textbook:
J.E. HARTLEY, Genesis, New International Biblical Commentary, Peabody: Hendrickson, 2000.

 COMMENTARIES:

Zvi ADAR, The Book of Genesis: An Introduction to the Biblical World, Jerusalem: Magnes, 1990.

* W. BRUEGGEMANN, Genesis, A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching, John Knox, Atlanta: 1982. bs 1235 .3 b78

J. FINEGAN, A Journey through Genesis, Harper, New York: 1962. bs 1235.2 f5

T.E. FRETHEIM, The Book of Genesis, Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections, The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 1, Nashville: Abingdon, 1994.

* W. GUNTHER PLAUT, The Torah, Genesis, A Modern Commentary, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, New York: 1974. /2 BS 1235 .3 P55

V.P. HAMILTON, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-17, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, General Editor, R.K. Harrison, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids Michigan: 1990. bs 1235 .3 h32.

P.D. MILLER, Genesis 1-11, studies in structure & theme, University of Sheffield, Sheffield: 1978. BS 1235.2 M5

J. PHILLIPS, Exploring Genesis, Moddy Press, Chicago: 1980.

J. ROGERSON, Genesis 1--11, Old Testament Guides, Sheffield Academic, Sheffield: 1991.

N.M. SARNA, Understanding Genesis, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York: 1966. bs 1235 s24 /2

E.A. SPEISER, Genesis, Anchor Bible, New York: Doubleday, 1964.

* B. VAWTER, On Genesis, A New Reading, Doubleday, Garden City, NY: 1977. bs 1235 .3 v38

B. VAWTER, A Path through Genesis, Sheed and Ward, New York: 1956. bs 1235 v3 /2

G. VON RAD, Genesis: a commentary, SCM Press London: 1963. BS 1235.3 R313

** G. J. WENHAM, Genesis, Waco, Tex: Word Books, 2 vols. c1987-c1994.

*** C. WESTERMANN, Genesis 1-11, 12-36, 37-50, 3 vols. trans. J.J. SCULLION, {Genesis 1-11, Neukirchener Verlag, 1974, 1976}, SPCK, London: 1984-1986.

C. WESTERMANN, Genesis: An Introduction, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

 CREATION:

B.W. ANDERSON, From Creation to New Creation, Old Testament Perspectives, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

B.W. ANDERSON, Creation Versus Chaos: The Reinterpretation of Mythical Symbolism in the Bible, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967, 1987.

James BARR, The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

B.F. BATTO, "Creation Theology in Genesis", [Creation in the Biblical Traditions, CBQ Monograph Series 24, 1992] 16-38.

P. BEAUCHAMP, "Création et fondation de la loi en Gn 1,1-2,4a", LD 127 (1987) 139-182.

P. BEAUCHAMP, Création et séparation, Étude exégétique du chapitre 1er de la Genèse, BSR, Aubier-Montaigne et Cerf, 1969.

P. BEAUCHAMP, Études sur la Genèse, L'Eden, les sept jours, les Patriarches, Médiasèvres: 1971,1988. bs 1235.2 b37

P. BEAUCHAMP, L'un et l'autre Testament, Accomplir les Écritures, Parole de Dieu, Seuil, Paris' 1990.

Thomas BERRY, Thomas CLARKE, Befriending the Earth: a Theology of Reconciliation between Humans and the Earth, Mystic, Conn, Twenty-Third, 1991.

Thomas BERRY, The Dream of the Earth, San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1988.

D. BONHOEFFER, Creation and Fall, A Theological Interpretation of Genesis 1-3, SCM, London: 1959. bs 1235 .2 b613 /2

D.B. BURRELL, Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions, (Jewish, Christian, Muslim), Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1993.

F. CASTEL, Commencements, Les onze premiers chapitres de la Genèse, Centurion, 1985.

R.J. CLIFFORD, Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible, CBQ Monograph Series 26, 1994

R.J. CLIFFORD, J.J. COLLINS, "The Theology of Creation Traditions", [Creation in the Biblical Traditions, CBQ Monograph Series 24, 1992] 1-15.

J. DANIELOU, In the Beginning, Genesis I-III, Palm, Montreal, 1965. /4

S.D. FOHR, Adam and Eve, The Spiritual Symbolism of Genesis and Exodus, Harper and Brothers, New York: 1962. bs 1235.2 f58

Matthew FOX, Creation Spirituality, San Fransisco: Harper, 1991.

Mathew FOX, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.

T.E. FRETHEIM, Creation, Fall and Flood, studies in Genesis 1-11, Augsburg, Minneapolis, Minn.: 1969. bs 1235.2 f7

T.H. GASTER, Myth Legend and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper and Row, New York: 1969. bs 1199 m99g

P. GIBERT, Bible, mythes et récits de commencement, Seuil, Paris: 1986.

R. GRAVES, R. PATAI, Hebrew Myths, The Book of Genesis, McGraw-Hill, New York: 1966. bs 1236 g7

P. GRELOT, "Homme qui es-tu?", Les onze premiers chapitres de la Genèse, Cahiers Évangile n. 4, Service Biblique Évangile et Vie -- Cerf, 1973.

A.J. HAUSER, "Genesis 2-3: The Theme of Intimacy and Alienation", [Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature, ed. D.J.A. CLINES et al. JSOT Ss 19, 1982] 20-36.

A. HEIDEL, The Babylonian Genesis, The Story of Creation, University of Chicago, Chicago: 1942.

P. HUMBERT, "Études sur le récit du Paradis et de la chute dans la Genèse", Neuchâtel: 1940.

C.E. L'HEUREUX, In and Out of Paradise, The Book of Genesis from Adam and Eve to the Tower of Babel, Paulist, New York: 1983. bs 1235 .2 l45

* J.D. LEVENSON, Creation and the Persistence of Evil, The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence, Harper & Row, San Francisco: 1988.

Heather MACKEY, "Jacob Makes it Across the Jabbok", JSOT 38 (1987)3-13. (Gen 25-36 = chiastic)

* F.R. McCURLEY, Ancient Myths and Biblical Faith, Scriptural Transformations, Fortress, Philadelphia: 1983.

S. MEIER, "Job I—II: A Reflection of Genesis I--III," VT 39 (1989) 183-193.

Jurgen MOLTMANN, God In Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God, trans. Margaret Kohl, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.

Robert MURRAY, The Cosmic Covenant: Biblical Themes of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, (Heythrop Monographs 7), London: Sheed & Ward, 1992.

J. PLASTARAS, Creation and Covenant, Milwaukee: 1968. bs 1225 p71

J.B. PRITCHARD, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, (ANET), (3rd edit. with supplement), Princeton: 1963.

H. RENCKENS, Israel's Concept of the Beginning, The Theology of Genesis 1-3, trans. C. Napier, Herder, New York: 1964. bs 1235 r39.e /2

J. SCHREINER, "Gen 6:1-4 und die Problematik von Leben und Tod", [De la Tôrah au Messie, Mélanges Henri Cazelles, Desclée, Paris: 1981] 65-74.

Ronald A. SIMKINS, Creator & Creation, Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel, Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994.

D.G. SPANNER, Biblical Creation and the Theory of Evolution, Paternoster Press, Exeter: c1987.

S. SPIEGEL, The Last Trial, On the Legends and Lore of the command to Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, The Akedah, trans. J. Goldin, Pantheon, New York: 1967. bs 1235s85.e /2

M. TSEVAT, "The Two Trees in the Garden of Eden", ErIs 12 (1975) 40-43.

Ellen VAN WOLDE, Stories of the Beginning: Genesis 1-11 and Other Creation Stories, [trans. John Bowden, Vehalen over het gegin. Genesis 1- 11 en andere scheppingsverhalen, 1995], Ridgefield, CT: Morehouse, 1996.

H.N. WALLACE, The Eden Narrative, HarvSemMono 32, Scholars, Atlanta, Georgia: 1985.

* C. WESTERMANN, The Genesis Accounts of Creation, Fortress, Philadelphia: 1964. BS 651 W4233
 

GENERAL and SPECIFIC TOPICS:

L. ALONSO SCHÖKEL, "Sapiential and Covenant Themes in Genesis 2-3", [Studies in Ancient Israelite Wisdom, ed. J.L. Crenshaw, New York: 1976] 468-480.

P. ALTENBERND, J. KALVEN, With Both Eyes Open, Pilgrim, New York: 1988.

R. ALTER, Genesis, Translation and Commentary, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996

P. BIRD, "Images of Women in the Old Testament", Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, ed. R,R. RUETHER, Simon and Schuster, New York: 1974.

Martin S. BERGMANN, In the Shadow of Moloch: The sacrifice of children and its impact on Western religions, New York: Columbia Universtiy Press, 1992.

D.L. CARMODY, Biblical Women: Contemporary Reflections on Scriptural Texts, Crossroad, New York: 1988.

D.M. CARR, Reading the Fractures of Genesis, Historical and Literary Approaches, Lousville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.

R.E. CLEMENTS, Abraham and David, Genesis 15 and its Meaning for Israelite Tradition, SBT 2:5, London: 1965.

F.C. HOLMGREN, "Holding Your Own Against God", Interpretation 44 (1990) 5-17.

A. COLLINS, ed., Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship, Scholars, Chico: 1985.

P. DAY, Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel, Fortress, Minneapolis: 1989.

E. DEEN, All the Women of the Bible, Harper, New York: 1955.

M.J. EVANS, Woman in the Bible, Inter Varsity, Illinois: 1983.

Joseph A. FITZMYER, "The sacrifice of Isaac in Qumran literature" , Bib 83 (2002) 211-229.

J. FOKKELMAN, Narrative Art in Genesis, Specimens of Stylistic and Structural Analysis (SSN 17, Van Gorcum, Assen/Amsterdam: 1975). bs 1235 .2 f6

Northrop FRYE, Fearful Symmetry: a study of William Blake, Boston: Beacon, 1962.

Northrop FRYE, Creation and Recreation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

* Northrop FRYE, The Great Code, the Bible and Literature, Academic, Toronto: 1982.

Northrop FRYE, Myth and Metaphor: selected essays (1974-1988), Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990.

Northrop FRYE, Spiritus mundi: essays on literature, myth and society, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976; (Toronto: Firzhenry & Whiteside, 1983).

Northrop FRYE, Words with Power: being a second study of "the Bible and Literature", Markham: Viking, 1990.

Jerome I. GELLMAN, The Fear, the Trembling, and the Fire: Kierkegaard and Hasidic Masters on the Binding of Isaac, New York: University Press of America, 1994.

M. GELLMAN, Does God Have a Big Toe?, Harper, New York: 1989 (regarding stories of creation).

E.M. GOOD, Irony in the Old Testament, {Jonah, Saul, Genesis, Isaiah, Qoheleth, Job}, Almond Press, Sheffield: 1981. bs 1199 i 71g

E.D. GRAY, "Eden's Garden Revisited", [P. Altenbernd, J. Kalven, eds., With Both Eyes Open, Pilgrim, New York: 1988].

Alberto Ravinell Whitney GREEN, The Role of Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East. American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series, ed. David Noel Freedman, no. 1. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1975.

S.P. JEANSONNE, The Women of Genesis, From Sarah to Potiphar's Wife, Fortress, Minneapolis, Minn.: 1990. bs 1235 .6 w7 j43

Leon KASS, "Seeing the Nakedness of His Father," Commentary 93 (1992) 41-47.

A. LACOCQUE, The Feminine Unconventional : Four Subversive Figures in Israel's Tradition, Fortress, Minneapolis: 1990.

S. LANSER, "(Feminist) Criticism in the Garden: Inferring Genesis 2-3," Semeia 41 (1988) 67-84.

Jon D. LEVENSON, The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The transfiguration of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

* Norbert Lohfink, Theology of the Pentateuch: Themes of the Priestly Narrative and Deuteronomy, trans. L.M. Maloney, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

S.E. McEVENUE, Interpreting the Pentateuch, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1990 bs 1225 .2 l5

S.E. McEVENUE, The Narrative Style of the Priestly Writers, Analecta Biblica 50, Rome: 1971.

Jo MILGROM, The Binding of Isaac: The Akedah -- A Primary Symbol in Jewish Thought and Art, Berkely: Bible Press, 1988.

W.T. MILLER, Mysterious Encounters at Mamre and Jabbok, Brown Judaic Studies 50, Scholars, Chico, CA: 1984. bs 1235 .5 m55

M. MONROE, Thinking About Genesis, Longmans, London: 1953.

C.A. NEWSOM, S.H. RINGE, eds, The Women's Bible Commentary, John Knox, 1992.

S. NIDITCH, Chaos to Cosmos, Studies in Biblical Patterns of Creation, Scholars, Chico, CA: 1985. bs 1235 .2 n47

M. ODUYOYE, The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men, An Afro-Asiatic Interpretation of Genesis I-II, Orbis, Maryknoll, NY: 1987. bs 1235 .2 o38

E. PAGELS, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, Random House, New York: 1988.

L.G. PERDUE, ed., Families in Ancient Israel,  Lousville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1997.

L.G. PERDUE, Wisdom in Revolt: metaphorical theology in the Book of Job, Almond, Sheffield: 1991.

L.G. PERDUE, The Collapse of History: Reconstructing Old Testament Theology, Overtures to Biblical Theology, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

W.E. PHIPPS, Genesis and gender: Biblical Myths of Sexuality and their Cultural Impact, Praeger, New York: 1989. bs 652 p55

G.A. RENDSBURG, The Redaction of Genesis, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake: 1986. bs 1235 .2 r45

G.A. RENDSBURG, "Redactional Structuring in the Joseph Story: Genesis 37-50", in Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as Text, ed. Vincent L. Tollers and John Maier, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1990.

P. RICOEUR, The Symbolism of Evil, trans. E. BUCHANAN, Beacon, Boston: 1970 {pp. 246ff on Eden and fall}.

G. ROBINSON, The Origin and Development of the Old Testament Sabbath, Frankfurt: 1988.

R.R. RUETHER, Religion and Sexism, Simon and Schuster, New York: 1974.

L. RUSSELL, ed., Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, Westminster Press, Philadelphia: 1985.

F.J. SHEED, Genesis Regained, Sheed and Ward, New York: 1969. bs 1235 .2 s48

M. STONE, When God Was A Woman, Harvest, New York: 1976.

Michael E. STONE, A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve, (SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature 3), Atlanta: Scholars, 1992.

L. SWINDLER, Biblical Affirmations of Woman, Westminster Press, Philadelphia: 1979.

P. TRIBLE, "Depatriarchalization in Biblical Interpretation", The American Academy of Religion 41 (1973).

P. TRIBLE, God and the Rehtoric of Sexuality, Fortress, Philadelphia: 1978.

P. TRIBLE, Texts of Terror, Fortress, Philadelphia: 1984.

H. WHITE, Narration and Discourse in the Book of Genesis, Cambridge: 1991.

M. WOLD, Women of Faith and Spirit: Profiles of Fifteen Biblical Witnesses, Augsburg Press, Minneapolis: 1987.