Adam as Israel: Genesis 1-3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh - Softcover

Postell, Seth D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610971760 ISBN 13: 9781610971768

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2011

Synopsis

The story of Adam is the story of Israel writ small

In this text-centered interpretation of Genesis 1-3, Seth Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadows Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God, whereby a king will come in & the last days & to fulfill Adam's original mandate to conquer the land (Gen 1:28). Thus Genesis 1-3, the Torah, and the Hebrew Bible as a whole have an eschatological trajectory.

Postell highlights numerous intentional links between the story of Adam and the story of Israel and, in the process, explains numerous otherwise perplexing features of the Eden story.

About this title

About the Author

Seth D. Postell, formerly Assistant Professor of Old Testament at the Charles L. Feinberg Center for Messianic Jewish Studies (in partnership with Talbot School of Theology), is currently Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Israel College of the Bible in Netanya, Israel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610971760
• ISBN 13: 9781610971768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216