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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
On Translating Genesis
The Book of GENESIS
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: J
Genealogies [P]
The Promise to Abram: J
Wife and Sister: VERSION I: 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; Ishmaels 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 Jacobs 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 to Beth-El: R
Jacob Becomes Israel: ACCORDING TO P
The Death of Rachel: J?
Reuben Sleeps with Bilhah: J; FRAGMENTARY
Judah and Tamar: EARLY SOURCE
Joseph and His Brothers: EARLY SOURCE
APPENDIXES
Appendix 1: Addenda to the Joseph Story
JACOB’S VISION AT BEER-SHEBA (LATE SOURCE) [46:1-5a]
THE DEPARTURE FOR EGYPT (P) [46:6-7]
GENEALOGIES (P) [46:8-27]
JACOB IN EGYPT (P)[47:7-11, 27B-28]
JOSEPH’S LAND POLICY (LATE SOURCE) [47:13-26]
JACOB ADOPTS JOSEPH’S SONS (P) [48:3-7]
JACOB BLESSES JOSEPH’S SONS (A LATER VERSION: LATE SOURCE) [48:13,10a, 14-22]
THE TESTAMENT OF JACOB (EARLY SOURCE) [49:1b-28bα]
JACOB’S DEATH AND BURIAL (P) [49:1a, 28b-33, 50:12-13]
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS RECONCILED (A LATER VERSION: R?) [50:15-21]
EPILOGUE (VERSION I: LATE SOURCE) [50:22-23]
EPILOGUE (VERSION 2: LATE SOURCE) [50:24-26]
Appendix 2: The Flood [6:5-9:17]: [Roman – J; San Serif – J; Italic – P; San Serif Italic – R]
Appendix 3: The Rape of Dinah [34:1-31, 35:5]: [Roman – A version; San Serif – B version; San Serif Italic – C version]
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES
Selected Bibliography
Textual and Philological Notes
Acknowledgments
Books by Stephen Mitchell
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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