| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| A Note on Method | p. xxv |
| Abbreviations | p. xxix |
| Introduction | p. 0 |
| p. 1 |
| The Shift in the Evidence | p. 5 |
| Consistent Overlapping Structures-chiasms, Spiraling Stories, and Double Dramas, Including Twenty-Six Diptychs | p. 11 |
| Truth as Dialogical (Binary/diptych-Like) | p. 26 |
| The Diptych Structure: Original or Redactional? | p. 32 |
| A Further Shift of Evidence | p. 35 |
| p. 52 |
| The Greco-Persian World and Its Ancient Heritage | p. 53 |
| Theological Inquiry, Codification, and Historiography | p. 59 |
| Historiography, Epic, Prophecy, Law, and Other | p. 67 |
| Toward Detecting the Process of Composition | p. 71 |
| Date, Place, and People: a Summary of Key Arguments | p. 80 |
| p. 87 |
| Human Existence Under God | p. 89 |
| Genesis and History | p. 98 |
| Genesis and Psychology | p. 102 |
| Genesis and Spirituality | p. 107 |
| Further Aspects of Content | p. 112 |
| Commentary | p. 120 |
| p. 122 |
| Creation from God: the Grandeur (the Universe, 1: 1-2: 4a) Creation for Humankind: the Groundedness (the Garden, 2: 4b-24) | p. 123 |
| Disharmony with God (2: 25-Chap. 3) Disharmony with One's Brother (4: 1-16) | p. 142 |
| The Ten Generations of Cain and Adam (4: 17-26) the Ten-Generation Genealogy of Adam (chap. 5) | p. 157 |
| Creation Undone (chaps. 6-7) Creation Remade (8: 1-9: 17) | p. 167 |
| Humankind in Embryo: Three Sons Contrasted (9: 18-29) Humankind at Large: Three Sons' Sons Contrasted (chap. 10) | p. 185 |
| The Towering City Fails (11: 1-9) the Great Genealogy Fades (11: 10-32) | p. 196 |
| p. 207 |
| The Trial of Seeing Beyond Beauty (12: 1-13: 1) the Trial of Seeing Beyond Wealth (13: 2-10) | p. 209 |
| Amid an Enslaving War, a Blessing (chap. 14) Amid Uncertainty and Enslavement, a Covenant (chap. 15) | p. 219 |
| A Personal Conflict Excluding Foreign Slaves (chap. 16) a Vision Including Such Slaves (chap. 17) | p. 230 |
| Abraham's Generosity: a Basis for Justice (chap. 18) the Rescue of Lot: Justice as Generous (19: 1-29) | p. 242 |
| Lot's Foreign Children and Abraham the Foreigner (19: 30-Chap. 20) Abraham's Child and the Foreigners (chap. 21) | p. 254 |
| The Offering of the Son (chap. 22) the Death of the Wife (chap. 23) | p. 265 |
| The Double Betrothal (chap. 24) the Double Genealogy (25: 1-18) | p. 277 |
| p. 291 |
| The Family: Problems of Birth and Beauty (25: 19-26: 11) the Outside World: Problems with Contending Philistines and Wealth (26: 12-33) | p. 293 |
| The Deceptive Blessing (26: 34-27: 45) the Deceptive Betrothal (27: 46-29: 30) | p. 303 |
| The Generating of Children (29: 31-30: 24) the Generating of Flocks (30: 25-43) | p. 314 |
| The Fear in Meeting Laban (31: 1-32: 2) the Greater Fear in Meeting Esau (32: 3-chap. 33) | p. 320 |
| Dinah: Paralysis at Shechem (chap. 34) Deborah: Pilgrimage Through Bethel (35: 1-20) | p. 334 |
| The Shrunken Genealogy of Jacob (35: 21-29) the Expansive Genealogy of Esau (chap. 36) | p. 343 |
| p. 349 |
| Joseph, the Prophetic Dreamer, is Sold (37: 2-36) Judah's Whoring and Conversion (chap. 38) | p. 351 |
| The Moral Trial (chap. 39) the Interpretation Trial (chap. 40) | p. 364 |
| Joseph Becomes the Wise Ruler of Egypt (chap. 41) the Anatomy of the Brothers' Conversion (chap. 42) | p. 370 |
| An Initial Turning and Joseph's Generous Meal (chap. 43) the Final Turning Back, Led by Judah (chap. 44) | p. 380 |
| Joseph Revealed: Reconciliation and Sending (chap. 45) Jacob's Journey to Pharaoh: Reconciliation and Land (46: 1-47: 11) | p. 389 |
| Amid Famine, Life (47: 12-28) Amid Death: Blessing (47: 29-Chap. 48) | p. 398 |
| Jacob's Final Blessings and Death (chap. 49) Jacob's Burial (with Mourning and Aftermath) (chap. 50) | p. 406 |
| Appendices | p. 419 |
| Tracing Sources: Toward Clarifying the Criteria for Detecting Sources | p. 421 |
| Sources: Genesis's Use of the Prophets | p. 433 |
| Sources: Genesis's Use of Homer's Odyssey | p. 447 |
| Sources: the Theory of Four Hypothetical Documents (j, E, D, and P) | p. 495 |
| Landmarks in the Development of Literature: Toward a Map of Language, Writing, and Literature | p. 503 |
| The Landscape and the Lion: Genesis and the Gospels | p. 519 |
| Genesis in the Lectionaries | p. 523 |
| Bibliography | p. 533 |
| Index to Modern Authors | p. 563 |
| Subject Index | p. 569 |
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