The Legends of Genesis

English · 1901 · 5h 54m · Literary Criticism, Religion

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The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance to the authors. Gunkel also uses form criticism to uncover buried clues as to the constituent sources of the text. Gunkel offers his hypothesis to explain how the various sources came to be combined and redacted, and how the text later came to be attributed to Moses. (Summary by JoeD)

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Chapter 1 - The Significance and Scope of the Legends	25:12	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 2 - The Varieties of the Legends	53:36	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Literary Form of the Legends	40:33	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 3 Part 2 - The Literary Form of the Legends	34:13	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 3 Part 3 - The Literary Form of the Legends	39:45	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 4 Part 1 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition	37:47	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 4 Part 2 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition	39:05	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 5 - Jahvist, Elohist, Jehovist, Later Collections	48:59	Read by Joseph R. Daniels
Chapter 6 - Priestly Codex and Final Redaction	35:48	Read by Joseph R. Daniels