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Title Page

Dedication

Contents

On Translating Genesis

The Book of GENESIS

The Creation: ACCORDING TO P

The Creation: ACCORDING TO: J

Cain and Abel: J

Seth; The Descendants of Cain: J

The Descendants of Lamech: J

Genealogies [P]

The Gods and the Women: J

The Flood: ACCORDING TO J

The Flood: ACCORDING TO P

Noah’s Drunkenness: J

Genealogies [P, J]

The Tower of Babel: J

Genealogies [P]

The Promise to Abram: J

Wife and Sister: VERSION I: J

Abram and Lot: J

Abram and the Kings: LATE REDACTOR, USING THREE EARLY SOURCES

The Promise to Abram: Descendants: LATE SOURCE

The Promise to Abram: Land: LATE SOURCE

Hagar and Ishmael: ACCORDING TO J

The Covenant with Abraham: P

Abraham and the Three Visitors: J

Abraham Questions the Destruction of Sodom: LATE SOURCE

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: J

Lot’s Daughters: J

Wife and Sister: VERSION 2: E

The Family of Abraham: [P, R, late source]

Hagar and Ishmael: ACCORDING TO E

Beer-sheba: VERSION 1: E

Beer-sheba: VERSION 2: J

The Binding of Isaac: E

The Cave of Machpelah: P

The Betrothal of Rebecca: LATE SOURCE

The Death of Abraham; Ishmaels Descendants [P]

Jacob and Esau: J

Wife and Sister: VERSION 3: LATE SOURCE

Isaac and Abimelech; Beer-sheba: VERSION 3: LATE SOURCE

Esau Cheated of the Blessing: WHY JACOB WAS SENT TO LABAN, ACCORDING TO J

Why Jacob Was Sent to Laban: ACCORDING TO P

Jacob at Beth-El: ACCORDING TO J

Jacob at Beth-El: ACCORDING TO E

Jacob and Rachel, and Leah: J

The Birth of Jacobs Children: J

Jacob Outwits Laban: J

Jacob’s Flight: E?

Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau: J

Jacob Wrestles with God and Becomes Israel: ACCORDING TO J

The Meeting of Jacob and Esau: J

Arrival in Canaan: P

The Rape of Dinah: EARLY SOURCE

The Return to Beth-El: R

Jacob Becomes Israel: ACCORDING TO P

The Death of Rachel: J?

Reuben Sleeps with Bilhah: J; FRAGMENTARY

Judah and Tamar: EARLY SOURCE

Joseph and His Brothers: EARLY SOURCE

APPENDIXES

Appendix 1: Addenda to the Joseph Story

JACOB’S VISION AT BEER-SHEBA (LATE SOURCE) [46:1-5a]

THE DEPARTURE FOR EGYPT (P) [46:6-7]

GENEALOGIES (P) [46:8-27]

JACOB IN EGYPT (P)[47:7-11, 27B-28]

JOSEPH’S LAND POLICY (LATE SOURCE) [47:13-26]

JACOB ADOPTS JOSEPH’S SONS (P) [48:3-7]

JACOB BLESSES JOSEPH’S SONS (A LATER VERSION: LATE SOURCE) [48:13,10a, 14-22]

THE TESTAMENT OF JACOB (EARLY SOURCE) [49:1b-28bα]

JACOB’S DEATH AND BURIAL (P) [49:1a, 28b-33, 50:12-13]

JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS RECONCILED (A LATER VERSION: R?) [50:15-21]

EPILOGUE (VERSION I: LATE SOURCE) [50:22-23]

EPILOGUE (VERSION 2: LATE SOURCE) [50:24-26]

Appendix 2: The Flood [6:5-9:17]: [Roman – J; San Serif – J; Italic – P; San Serif Italic – R]

Appendix 3: The Rape of Dinah [34:1-31, 35:5]: [Roman – A version; San Serif – B version; San Serif Italic – C version]

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

Selected Bibliography

Textual and Philological Notes

Acknowledgments

Books by Stephen Mitchell

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Copyright

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