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

The Forsaken First-Born: A Study of a Recurrent Motif in the Patriarchal Narratives

Roger Syren

Genesis: A Commentary

Bruce K. Waltke

Genesis (2 Volumes)

Gordon J. Wenham

Narration and Discourse in the Book of Genesis

Hugh C. White

Deception in Genesis: An Investigation into the Morality of a Unique Biblical Phenomenon

Michael James Williams