Discovering Genesis ─ Content, Interpretation, Reception

Concise, student-friendly introduction to Genesis
 
Iain Provan here offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to the book of Genesis, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates, and historical reception.
 
Drawing on a range of methodological approaches (author-, text-, and reader-centered) as complementary rather than mutually exclusive ways of understanding,Discovering Genesis encourages students to dig deeply into the theological and historical questions raised by the text. It provides a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretive debates, focusing especially on the reception history of the biblical text, a subject of growing interest to students and scholars of the Bible.

Iain Provan is Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College. His other books includeA Biblical History ofIsrael, The NIV Application Commentary volume on Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs, andSeriously Dangerous Religion: What the OldTestament Really Says and Why It Matters.