Dr. Creasy's Suggested Reading for Genesis
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From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Themes of the Pentateuch, 3rd ed
T. Desmond Alexander
The Art of Biblical Narrative
Robert Alter

The Art of Biblical Poetry
Robert Alter

The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter

The Literary Guide to the Bible
Robert Alter and Frank Kermode

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
Narrative Art in the Bible
Shimon Bar-Efrat
Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study
John Barton
Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative
Adele Berlin
Reading the Fractures in Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches
David M. Carr
Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Part 1: From Adam to Noah
U. Cassuto
Asking for Rhetoric: the Hebrew Bible’s Protean Interrogative
Kenneth M. Craig, Jr.
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Stephanie Dalley
The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: a Commentary on Genesis-Malachi
David A. Dorsey
The Bible and the Psyche: Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament
Edward F. Edinger
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Michael Fishbane
Reading Biblical Narrative
J. P. Fokkelman

Narrative Art in Genesis
J.P. Fokkelman
Remembering Abraham: Culture, History, and Memory in Ancient Israel
Ronald Hendel
The Purpose of the Biblical Genealogies
Marshall D. Johnson
The Book of God
Gabriel Josipovici
Before Abraham Was: The Unity of Genesis 1-11
Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn
The Eden Narrative: a Literary and Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2-3
Tryggve Mettinger
The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch
Dean Andrew Nicholas
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading
Meir Sternberg
