Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221135073
Suitable for ScholarS, preachers, and students, this second of two volumes on the book of Genesis continues to interpret the book as a response to communal disaster. The introduction provides the reader with historical context and a summary of major themes, helping to situate Genesis 25B–50 within the book’s wider arc and enabling this second volume to function well on its own. O’Connor has pioneered trauma and disaster studies within biblical studies, previously applying this critical framework to Lamentations and Jeremiah. Reading Genesis as disaster literature sheds new light on the book’s emphasis on beginnings, divine creativity, promise, and the persistence of life in seemingly impossible circumstances. The creation of the world gives hope for the re-creation of a fractured people; promises of land, descendants, blessings, and a name speak into being a future marked by commitment and renewal. O’Connor is an astute interpreter, weaving together textured literary analysis with sensitivity to historical context and theological themes. The commentary’s greatest strength is its analysis of how the text may have functioned for its ancient audience. For example, the character of Isaac, comparatively passive and ineffectual, may symbolically portray the experiences of Judeans who remained in the land while others went into exile in Babylonia. Isaac’s passivity mirrors the experience of occupation; his narrative functions as a kind of bridge between ancestral generations and similarly reflects this group’s historical role as a bridge between preexilic and restoration communities. Joseph’s reticent and watchful demeanor in Genesis 45 may offer a model for Judeans who remained in the land and returnees to “receive one another, to meet without suspicion and jealousy after decades of separation and the near death of the nation” (p. 228). In the “Connections” that conclude each chapter O’Connor brings a similar skill and sensitivity to exploration of contemporary social, homiletic, and pastoral implications. This series is especially appealing for visual learners. O’Connor includes images spanning millennia and media, ranging from ancient stelae and medieval mosaic and illuminated manuscript to modern painting, tapestry, sculpture, pen and ink drawing, and engraving. The accompanying CD allows readers to access digital images and search the full text, including sidebars on topics ranging from famine to incarceration.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221127316
Ted Hiebert
In order to engage more faithfully with the reality of migration in the modern world and the challenges of immigration in the United States today, we take a closer look at perspectives on immigration in Scripture. In the stories of their ancestors, the authors of Genesis describe their own origins as migratory, thereby claiming for themselves and their people an immigrant identity. To understand these migration narratives clearly, we construct a new set of lenses that view Israel’s ancestors as sedentary residents of Canaan—not nomads—who cross administrative borders and encounter different cultures, who are named immigrants (gērîm)—not sojourners, foreigners, or aliens—by the authors in Genesis, and who experience the same kinds of crises—especially climate change—as modern immigrants who are forced to leave their countries of origin and relocate in destination countries.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221134971
Ethan Schwartz
Due to the influence of Christian philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, modern Jewish readings of the Aqedah, or “binding of Isaac” (Gen 22:1–19), tend to understand the story in terms of a conflict between divine command and human ethics. Drawing on both biblical and extrabiblical evidence, this article argues that the conflict in the story is more plausibly understood as one between divine command and covenantal promise. Despite not being about theological ethics in the usual sense, this interpretation may still have Jewish meaning if we situate it in the realm of theodicy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221132547
Judy Fentress-Williams
This article uses a dialogic approach to examine the character of Abraham in Genesis 18 in light of his multiple roles in the story and through the lens of internal family systems theory. The study of the varied characters of Abraham contributes to our understanding of God and the nature of God’s call on Abraham and by extension, our lives.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221135092b
W. Brueggemann
PhIlIP JenkInS haS established for himself a most distinctive role in religious scholarship. He is our foremost commentator on “world religion.” His perspective on his subject allows no energy for theoretical, abstract, or schematic matters. He is rather a close observer of the actual practice of religion, and his interpretive commentary is careful, disciplined, and alert to what he observes. Jenkins takes on a fresh and urgent matter, namely, the way in which climate change impinges upon religious practice and institutions. Jenkins has no interest in simplistic connections, e.g., that volcanoes are caused by God’s anger, even though he begins his book with reference to Jonathan Edwards’s famous sermon on “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Jenkins is careful not to claim “causation” between climate and religion but is attentive to the ways in which climate change creates conditions that seem to evoke extreme and sometimes disastrous religious practices. His book features studies of such critical moments of climate danger and upheaval.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221127324
Alison Acker Gruseke
Genesis 2–3 is among the most beloved yet misunderstood texts in the Hebrew Bible. Many biblical and post-biblical interpretations focus on themes of sin, death, and God’s banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. These have fostered misapprehensions regarding the value of God’s creation and the dangerous image of an “Old Testament God of wrath.” This essay uses space-critical analysis to focus on the spaces of Eden—from ground to bodies to gardens—to show that Ivan Illich’s notion of “conviviality” best captures Eden’s true ethic of cooperation, environmental caretaking, and the positive portrait a gentle God who makes humans by hand.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221133099
Margaret A. Smerko
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221132549
Carrie Cifers
Genesis 34 is a troubling tale that includes an ambiguous sexual encounter (possibly rape), deception, brutal violence against an unsuspecting city, and the silence—or silencing—of the only female character, Dinah. This article models wrestling with this difficult passage through linguistic analysis and a narrative ethics framework that monitors the functions of reticence in narrative. Attending to the two major informational gaps—the narrator’s evaluation and the perspective of Dinah—alerts readers to the centrality of the latter as the key to unlocking the former.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1177/00209643221135092a
Troy M. Troftgruben
barbara e. reId IS a Dominican sister, General Editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, President of the Catholic Theological Union, and a leading scholar in feminist biblical interpretation. Shelly Matthews is Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, general editor for the SBL Press series Early Christianity and Its Literature, and cochair of the SBL Program Unit on Racism, Pedagogy and Biblical Studies. Both women have contributed extensively to scholarly dialogue on feminist interpretation and studies in Luke and Acts. Their collective interpretive wisdom, awareness of current discussion, and scholarly distinction make these two volumes a tour de force for the Wisdom Commentary series.
barbara e. reId是一位多米尼加修女，《智慧评论》系列的总编辑，天主教神学联合会主席，也是女权主义圣经解释的主要学者。谢莉·马修斯是英国神学院新约教授，SBL出版社《早期基督教及其文学》系列丛书的总编辑，以及SBL种族主义、教育学和圣经研究项目单元的联合主席。两位女性都对女权主义的学术对话和对路加福音和使徒行传的研究做出了广泛贡献。他们的集体解释的智慧，当前讨论的意识，和学术的区别，使这两卷巡回巡回的智慧评论系列。
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