Details

Subject(s)

• Bible Genesis—Commentaries [Browse]

Translator

• Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965 [Browse]

Commentator

• Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965 [Browse]

Series

• Bible. English. Anchor Bible. 1964 ; v. 1. [More in this series]
• Bible. English. Anchor Yale Bible. 2008 ; v. 1. [More in this series]
• Anchor Bible ; 1
• Anchor Yale Bible ; 1
• Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series

Summary note

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."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 20 September 2021).

ISBN

9780300261851

OCLC

1269240752

Doi

• 10.5040/9780300261851

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