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Part II - Social World of Genesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

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Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
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The Cambridge Companion to Genesis , pp. 119 - 208
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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
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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
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
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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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
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Jiménez, Enrique. The Babylonian Disputation Poems, CHANE 87. Leiden, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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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
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Francesca, Rochberg. Before Nature. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.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.CrossRefGoogle 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.CrossRefGoogle 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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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
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