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Part II - Social World of Genesis

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Genesis , pp. 119 - 208

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Chen, Y. S. “The Flood Motif as a Stylistic and Temporal Device in Sumerian Literary Traditions.” JANER 12.2 (2012): 158–89.Google Scholar

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Hess, Richard S. “The Genealogies of Genesis 1–11 and Comparative Literature.” Pages 65–71 in I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood. Edited by Hess, R. S. and Tsumura, D. T.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.Google Scholar

Lambert, Wilfried G. “Mesopotamian Creation Stories.” Pages 15–59 in Imagining Creation. Edited by Geller, Markham J. and Schipper, Mineke. Leiden: Brill, 2008.Google Scholar

Levy, Thomas E. “The New Pragmatism: Integrating Anthropological, Digital, and Historical Biblical Archaeologies.” Pages 3–44 in Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future: The New Pragmatism. Edited by Levy, Thomas E.. London: Equinox, 2010.Google Scholar

Sasson, Jack M. “Mari and the Holy Grail.” Pages 186–98 in Orientalism, Assyriology, and the Bible. Edited by Holloway, Steven W.. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi A. “The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis.” Semeia 46 (1989): 41–50.Google Scholar

Thompson, Thomas L. The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for Historical Abraham. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1974.Google Scholar

Tsumura, David T. “Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction.” Pages 27–57 in I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11. Edited by Hess, Richard S. and Tsumura, David T.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.Google Scholar

Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1975.Google Scholar

Chavalas, Mark W. “The Comparative Use of Ancient Near Eastern Texts in the Study of the Hebrew Bible.” Religion Compass 5.5 (2011): 150–65.Google Scholar

Chen, Y. S. “The Flood Motif as a Stylistic and Temporal Device in Sumerian Literary Traditions.” JANER 12.2 (2012): 158–89.Google Scholar

Finkelstein, Israel and Mazar, Amihai. The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel. Edited by Schmidt, Brian B.. Atlanta: SBL, 2007.Google Scholar

Fleming, Daniel E. “Genesis in History and Tradition: The Syrian Background of Israel’s Ancestors, Reprise.” Pages 193–232 in The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions. Edited by Hoffmeier, James K. and Millard, Alan. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.Google Scholar

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Hendel, Ronald S. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar

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Levy, Thomas E. “The New Pragmatism: Integrating Anthropological, Digital, and Historical Biblical Archaeologies.” Pages 3–44 in Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future: The New Pragmatism. Edited by Levy, Thomas E.. London: Equinox, 2010.Google Scholar

Sasson, Jack M. “Mari and the Holy Grail.” Pages 186–98 in Orientalism, Assyriology, and the Bible. Edited by Holloway, Steven W.. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi A. “The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis.” Semeia 46 (1989): 41–50.Google Scholar

Thompson, Thomas L. The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for Historical Abraham. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1974.Google Scholar

Tsumura, David T. “Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction.” Pages 27–57 in I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11. Edited by Hess, Richard S. and Tsumura, David T.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.Google Scholar

Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1975.Google Scholar

Chavalas, Mark W. “The Comparative Use of Ancient Near Eastern Texts in the Study of the Hebrew Bible.” Religion Compass 5.5 (2011): 150–65.Google Scholar

Chen, Y. S. “The Flood Motif as a Stylistic and Temporal Device in Sumerian Literary Traditions.” JANER 12.2 (2012): 158–89.Google Scholar

Finkelstein, Israel and Mazar, Amihai. The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel. Edited by Schmidt, Brian B.. Atlanta: SBL, 2007.Google Scholar

Fleming, Daniel E. “Genesis in History and Tradition: The Syrian Background of Israel’s Ancestors, Reprise.” Pages 193–232 in The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions. Edited by Hoffmeier, James K. and Millard, Alan. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.Google Scholar

Hallo, William W. “Biblical History in Its Near Eastern Setting: The Contextual Approach.” Pages 1–26 in Scripture in Context: Essays on the Comparative Method. Edited by Evans, Carl D., Hallo, William W., and White, John B.. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 1980.Google Scholar

Hendel, Ronald S. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar

Hess, Richard S. “The Genealogies of Genesis 1–11 and Comparative Literature.” Pages 65–71 in I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood. Edited by Hess, R. S. and Tsumura, D. T.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.Google Scholar

Lambert, Wilfried G. “Mesopotamian Creation Stories.” Pages 15–59 in Imagining Creation. Edited by Geller, Markham J. and Schipper, Mineke. Leiden: Brill, 2008.Google Scholar

Levy, Thomas E. “The New Pragmatism: Integrating Anthropological, Digital, and Historical Biblical Archaeologies.” Pages 3–44 in Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future: The New Pragmatism. Edited by Levy, Thomas E.. London: Equinox, 2010.Google Scholar

Sasson, Jack M. “Mari and the Holy Grail.” Pages 186–98 in Orientalism, Assyriology, and the Bible. Edited by Holloway, Steven W.. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi A. “The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis.” Semeia 46 (1989): 41–50.Google Scholar

Thompson, Thomas L. The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for Historical Abraham. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1974.Google Scholar

Tsumura, David T. “Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction.” Pages 27–57 in I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11. Edited by Hess, Richard S. and Tsumura, David T.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.Google Scholar

Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1975.Google Scholar

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Toorn, Karel van der. Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life. Leiden: Brill, 1996.Google Scholar

Vanstiphout, Herman. “Why Did Enki Organize the World?” Pages 117–35 in Sumerian Gods and Their Representations. Edited by Finkel, Irving. Groningen: Styx, 1997.Google Scholar

Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.Google Scholar

Walton, John H. and Walton, J. Harvey. The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2017.Google Scholar

Averbeck, Richard. “Ancient Near Eastern Mythography as It Relates to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible: Genesis 3 and the Cosmic Battle.” Pages 328–56 in The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions. Edited by Hoffmeier, J. K., and Millard, Alan. Grand Rapids, MI, 2004.Google Scholar

Evans, C. D. “Naram-Sin and Jeroboam: The Archetypal Unheilsherrscher in Mesopotamian and Biblical Historiography.” Pages 328–56 in Scripture in Context II: More Essays on the Comparative Method. Edited by Hallo, W. W., Moyer, James, and Perdue, Leo. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1983.Google Scholar

Jiménez, Enrique. The Babylonian Disputation Poems, CHANE 87. Leiden, 2017.CrossRef Google Scholar

Korpel, Marjo. Rift in the Clouds: Ugaritic and Hebrew Descriptions of the Divine, UBL 8. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1990.Google Scholar

Longman, Tremper III and Walton, John H.. The Lost World of the Flood. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2018.Google Scholar

Oshima, Takayoshi. Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.Google Scholar

Pongratz-Leisten, Beate. “The Other and the Enemy in the Mesopotamian Conception of the World.” Pages 195–231 in Mythology and Mythologies. Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. Edited by Whiting, Robert, Melammu, II. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.Google Scholar

Rajadell, Àngel Menargues. “Mesopotamian Ideas of Time Through Modern Eyes.” Pages 211–28 in Time and History in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Feliu, Lluís et al. RAI 56. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.Google Scholar

Francesca, Rochberg. Before Nature. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.Google Scholar

Francesca, Rochberg. “’The Stars and Their Likeness’: Perspectives on the Relation Between Celestial Bodies and Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Pages 41–92 in What Is a God? Edited by Porter, B. N.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009.Google Scholar

Rubio, Gonzalo. “Time before Time: Primeval Narratives in Early Mesopotamian Literature.” Pages in 3–17 in Time and History in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Feliu, Lluís et al., RAI 56. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.Google Scholar

Toorn, Karel van der. Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life. Leiden: Brill, 1996.Google Scholar

Vanstiphout, Herman. “Why Did Enki Organize the World?” Pages 117–35 in Sumerian Gods and Their Representations. Edited by Finkel, Irving. Groningen: Styx, 1997.Google Scholar

Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.Google Scholar

Walton, John H. and Walton, J. Harvey. The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2017.Google Scholar

Averbeck, Richard. “Ancient Near Eastern Mythography as It Relates to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible: Genesis 3 and the Cosmic Battle.” Pages 328–56 in The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions. Edited by Hoffmeier, J. K., and Millard, Alan. Grand Rapids, MI, 2004.Google Scholar

Evans, C. D. “Naram-Sin and Jeroboam: The Archetypal Unheilsherrscher in Mesopotamian and Biblical Historiography.” Pages 328–56 in Scripture in Context II: More Essays on the Comparative Method. Edited by Hallo, W. W., Moyer, James, and Perdue, Leo. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1983.Google Scholar

Jiménez, Enrique. The Babylonian Disputation Poems, CHANE 87. Leiden, 2017.CrossRef Google Scholar

Korpel, Marjo. Rift in the Clouds: Ugaritic and Hebrew Descriptions of the Divine, UBL 8. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1990.Google Scholar

Longman, Tremper III and Walton, John H.. The Lost World of the Flood. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2018.Google Scholar

Oshima, Takayoshi. Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.Google Scholar

Pongratz-Leisten, Beate. “The Other and the Enemy in the Mesopotamian Conception of the World.” Pages 195–231 in Mythology and Mythologies. Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. Edited by Whiting, Robert, Melammu, II. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.Google Scholar

Rajadell, Àngel Menargues. “Mesopotamian Ideas of Time Through Modern Eyes.” Pages 211–28 in Time and History in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Feliu, Lluís et al. RAI 56. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.Google Scholar

Francesca, Rochberg. Before Nature. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.Google Scholar

Francesca, Rochberg. “’The Stars and Their Likeness’: Perspectives on the Relation Between Celestial Bodies and Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Pages 41–92 in What Is a God? Edited by Porter, B. N.. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009.Google Scholar

Rubio, Gonzalo. “Time before Time: Primeval Narratives in Early Mesopotamian Literature.” Pages in 3–17 in Time and History in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Feliu, Lluís et al., RAI 56. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.Google Scholar

Toorn, Karel van der. Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life. Leiden: Brill, 1996.Google Scholar

Vanstiphout, Herman. “Why Did Enki Organize the World?” Pages 117–35 in Sumerian Gods and Their Representations. Edited by Finkel, Irving. Groningen: Styx, 1997.Google Scholar

Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.Google Scholar

Walton, John H. and Walton, J. Harvey. The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2017.Google Scholar

Select Bibliography

Chapman, Cynthia R. The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. ABRL. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.Google Scholar

Donaldson, Mara E. “Kinship Theory in the Patriarchal Narratives: The Case of the Barren Wife.” JAAR 49 (1981): 77–87.Google Scholar

Meyers, Carol. “’To Her Mother’s House’: Considering a Counterpart to the Israelite Bêt ´āb.” Pages 39–51, 304–7 in The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Norman Gottwald on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Jobling, David, Peggy, L. Day, and Sheppard, Gerald T.. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1991.Google Scholar

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Perdue Leo, G., Blenkinsopp, Joseph, Collins, John J., and Meyers, Carol, eds. Families in Ancient Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1997.Google Scholar

Petersen, David L. “Genesis and Family Values.” JBL 124 (2005): 5–23.Google Scholar

Prewitt, Terry J. “Kinship Structures and Genesis Genealogies.” JNES 40 (1981): 87–98.Google Scholar

Schloen, J. David. The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East. Studies in Archaeology and History of the Levant 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001.Google Scholar

Schneider, Tammi J. Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2008.Google Scholar

Stager, Lawrence E. “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel.” BASOR 260 (1985): 1–35.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. “The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis.” Semeia 46 (1989): 41–50.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. Kinship and Marriage in Genesis: A Household Economics Perspective. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.Google Scholar

Williams, Dolores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.Google Scholar

Wright, C. J. H., “Family.” Pages 761–68 in vol. 2 of The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by Freedman, D. N.. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.Google Scholar

Chapman, Cynthia R. The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. ABRL. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.Google Scholar

Donaldson, Mara E. “Kinship Theory in the Patriarchal Narratives: The Case of the Barren Wife.” JAAR 49 (1981): 77–87.Google Scholar

Meyers, Carol. “’To Her Mother’s House’: Considering a Counterpart to the Israelite Bêt ´āb.” Pages 39–51, 304–7 in The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Norman Gottwald on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Jobling, David, Peggy, L. Day, and Sheppard, Gerald T.. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1991.Google Scholar

Oden, Robert A. “Jacob as Father, Husband, and Nephew: Kinship Studies and the Patriarchal Narratives.” JBL 102 (1983): 189–205.Google Scholar

Perdue Leo, G., Blenkinsopp, Joseph, Collins, John J., and Meyers, Carol, eds. Families in Ancient Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1997.Google Scholar

Petersen, David L. “Genesis and Family Values.” JBL 124 (2005): 5–23.Google Scholar

Prewitt, Terry J. “Kinship Structures and Genesis Genealogies.” JNES 40 (1981): 87–98.Google Scholar

Schloen, J. David. The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East. Studies in Archaeology and History of the Levant 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001.Google Scholar

Schneider, Tammi J. Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2008.Google Scholar

Stager, Lawrence E. “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel.” BASOR 260 (1985): 1–35.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. “The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis.” Semeia 46 (1989): 41–50.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. Kinship and Marriage in Genesis: A Household Economics Perspective. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.Google Scholar

Williams, Dolores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.Google Scholar

Wright, C. J. H., “Family.” Pages 761–68 in vol. 2 of The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by Freedman, D. N.. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.Google Scholar

Chapman, Cynthia R. The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. ABRL. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.Google Scholar

Donaldson, Mara E. “Kinship Theory in the Patriarchal Narratives: The Case of the Barren Wife.” JAAR 49 (1981): 77–87.Google Scholar

Meyers, Carol. “’To Her Mother’s House’: Considering a Counterpart to the Israelite Bêt ´āb.” Pages 39–51, 304–7 in The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Norman Gottwald on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Jobling, David, Peggy, L. Day, and Sheppard, Gerald T.. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1991.Google Scholar

Oden, Robert A. “Jacob as Father, Husband, and Nephew: Kinship Studies and the Patriarchal Narratives.” JBL 102 (1983): 189–205.Google Scholar

Perdue Leo, G., Blenkinsopp, Joseph, Collins, John J., and Meyers, Carol, eds. Families in Ancient Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1997.Google Scholar

Petersen, David L. “Genesis and Family Values.” JBL 124 (2005): 5–23.Google Scholar

Prewitt, Terry J. “Kinship Structures and Genesis Genealogies.” JNES 40 (1981): 87–98.Google Scholar

Schloen, J. David. The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East. Studies in Archaeology and History of the Levant 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001.Google Scholar

Schneider, Tammi J. Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2008.Google Scholar

Stager, Lawrence E. “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel.” BASOR 260 (1985): 1–35.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. “The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis.” Semeia 46 (1989): 41–50.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. Kinship and Marriage in Genesis: A Household Economics Perspective. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993.Google Scholar

Steinberg, Naomi. The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.Google Scholar

Williams, Dolores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.Google Scholar

Wright, C. J. H., “Family.” Pages 761–68 in vol. 2 of The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by Freedman, D. N.. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.Google Scholar

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Yee, Gale A. The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2018.Google Scholar

Bird, Phyllis A. Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1997.Google Scholar

Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Genesis. FCB 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.Google Scholar

Byron, Gay L., and Lovelace, Vanessa, eds. Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse. Semeia Studies 85. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.Google Scholar

Chapman, Cynthia R. The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. AYBRL. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.Google Scholar

Claassens, L. Juliana and Sharp, Carolyn J., eds. Feminist Frameworks and the Bible: Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality. LHBOTS 630. London: T&T Clark, 2017.Google Scholar

Gafney, Wilda C. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017.Google Scholar

Junior, Nyasha. An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015.Google Scholar

Meyers, Carol L. Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.Google Scholar

Murphy, Cullen. The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.Google Scholar

Russaw, Kimberly D. Daughters in the Hebrew Bible. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.Google Scholar

Schneider, Tammi J. Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.Google Scholar

Shectman, Sarah. Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis. HBM 23. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009.Google Scholar

Trible, Phyllis. God and The Rhetoric of Sexuality. OBT 2. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978.Google Scholar

Yee, Gale A., ed. Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2003.Google Scholar

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