Legends of Genesis

by Hermann Gunkel

9 chapters5h 54mEnglish1901

About this book

The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance to the authors. Gunkel also uses form criticism to uncover buried clues as to the constituent sources of the text. Gunkel offers his hypothesis to explain how the various sources came to be combined and redacted, and how the text later came to be attributed to Moses. (Summary by JoeD)

Chapters (9)

1Chapter 1 - The Significance and Scope of the Legends

1512

2Chapter 2 - The Varieties of the Legends

3216

3Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Literary Form of the Legends

2433

4Chapter 3 Part 2 - The Literary Form of the Legends

2053

5Chapter 3 Part 3 - The Literary Form of the Legends

2385

6Chapter 4 Part 1 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition

2267

7Chapter 4 Part 2 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition

2345

8Chapter 5 - Jahvist, Elohist, Jehovist, Later Collections

2939

9Chapter 6 - Priestly Codex and Final Redaction

2148

Legends of Genesis

About this book

Chapters (9)

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