Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-325) and indexes.
Contents:
African wife of Abraham : an African reading of Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:8-21 / Critical assessment of the creation mandate in Genesis 1:26-28 and its human rights implications for Nigeria / David Tuesday Adamo, Erivwierho Francis Eghwubare. Genesis creation accounts : an African background / David Tuesday Adamo -- Tree of life as a female symbol? / Athalya Brenner -- History or his story? Ideology of the body in the first creation narrative / Philip Venter -- Sin, gender, and responsibility : a contextual interpretation of Genesis 3 / Edwin Zulu -- Re-reading Genesis 1-3 in the light of ancient Chinese creation myths / Yan Lin -- When the flood narrative of Genesis meets its counterpart in China : reception and challenge in cross-textual reading / Archie Chi Chung Lee -- Unity and scattering : toward a holistic reading of Genesis 11:1-9 in the South African context / Mark Rathbone -- Vegetarian ideology in Talmudic literature and traditional biblical exegesis / Yael Shemesh -- Redreaming with Joseph and others. "Here comes this dreamer" : reading Joseph the slave in multicultural and interfaith contexts / Carole R. Fontaine -- Joseph's journey from trauma to resolution / Meira Polliack -- "Leadership and land" : a very contextual interpretation of Genesis 37-50 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Gerald West, Thulani Ndlazi -- "Same bed, different dreams" : an engendered reading of families in migration in Genesis and Hong Kong / Wai Ching (Angela) Wong -- Issues of gender, family, and class. Case of Judah and Tamar in the contemporary Israeli context : a relevant interpolation / Yairah Amit -- Characterizations, comedy, and catastrophe : divine/human relations, emotions, and rules of law / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Reading Hagar in contexts : from exegesis to inter-contextual analysis / Kari Latvus -- African wife of Abraham : an African reading of Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:8-21 / David Tuesday Adamo, Erivwierho Francis Eghwubare.
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