Genesis Texts and Contexts

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Beginnings: The Creation Revisited A critical Assessment of the Creation mandate in Genesis 1: 26-28 and Its Human Rights Implications for Nigeria ......13 The Genesis creation Accounts: An African Background ........25 The Tree of Life as a Female Symbol.........35 History or His Story ? Ideology of the Body in the First creation Narrative .............43 Sin, Gender, and Responsibility: A Contextual Interpretationm of Genesis 3............55 Re-Reading Genesis 1-3 in the light of Ancienty chinese creation myths .............65 When the Flood narrative of Genesis meets its Counterpart in china: Reception and challenge in Cross -Textual Reading .......81 Unity and scattering : Toward a holistic Reading of Genesis 11: 1-9 in the South African Context ....99 Vegetarian Ideology in Talmudic Literature and Traditional Biblical Exegesis .........107 2. Redreaming with Joseph and Others Here comes this dreamer: Reading Joseph the Slave in Multicultural and Interfaith Contexts ....131 Joseph`s Journey : From trauma to Resolution .......147 Leadership and Land : A very Contextual Interpretation of Genesis 37-50 in Kwazulu- Natal, South Africa ........175 Same Bed, Different Dreams: An Engendered Reading of Families in Migration in Genesis and Hong Kong .......191 3. Issues of Gender, Family and Class The Case of Judah and Tamar in the Contemporary Israeli Context: A relevant Interpretation ........213 Characterizations, Comedy, and Catastrophe: Divine/ Human Relations, Emotions , and Rules of Law...221 Reading hagar in Contexts: From Exegesis to Inter-Contextual Analysis ........247 The African Wife of Abraham : An African Reading of Genesis 16: 1-16 and 21: 8-21..........275