Genesis: Introduction, Translation, and Notes (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 1) - Hardcover

E. A. Speiser

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385008546 ISBN 13: 9780385008549

Publisher: Anchor Bible, 1964

Synopsis

Genesis is Volume I in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha.  Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Using authoritative evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and comparative religion, the author presents some startling conclusions about the first book of the Bible.  He proves, for example, that the famous opening phrase, "In the beginning," is not true to the meaning of the first word, that the designation "Torah" for the Pentateuch is a misnomer, that the best-known stories of Genesis are grounded in pagan mythology.  Speiser is an iconoclast in the tradition of Abraham; he exposes the false in order to help achieve truth.  As he says in his introduction, he "is not motivated by mere pedantry...but by the hope that each new insight may bring us that much closer to the secret of the Bible's universal and enduring appeal."

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Bible
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0385008546
• ISBN 13: 9780385008549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378