Genesis: An Introduction and Study Guide: A Past for a People in Need of a Future: 622 (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament) - Softcover

Megan Warner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567676641 ISBN 13: 9780567676641

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2024

Synopsis

This study guide introduces students to the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. The author examines the book's structure and characteristics; covers the latest Biblical scholarship, including historical and interpretive issues; and considers a range of scholarly approaches.

There will also be chapters on the ongoing significance of Genesis in Jewish, Christian, Islamic and secular thought, as well as on its wider reception in literature, film, art and music, all of which provide ways of reading and understanding this fascinating and complex work.

With suggestions of further reading at the end of each chapter, this guide will be an essential accompaniment to study of the Book of Genesis.

About this title

About the Author

Megan Warner is Tutor in Old Testament Studies at Northern College, Manchester, UK and an Associate of the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Re-Imagining Abraham: A Re-Assessment of the Influence of Deuteronomism in Genesis (2020), Joseph: A story of resilience (2020), Burridge, Sacks and Warner, Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative (2018), and Abraham: A journey through Lent (2015). She is also co-editor of Tragedies and Christian Congregations: The Practical Theology of Trauma (2020). She is a Licensed Lay Minister in the Church of England and a member of its General Synod.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567676641
• ISBN 13: 9780567676641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144