REL 312: OT Studies — Genesis:
Recommended Readings

"Enuma Elish," Oxford Companion to World Mythology (David Leeming, ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Read this article online at Oxford Reference Online.

James Barr, "The Meaning of 'Mythology' in Relation to the Old Testament," Vetus Testamentum, 9:1 (1959) 1-10. Read this article on JSTOR

Phyllis A. Bird, "'Male and Female He Created Them': Gen. 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation" Harvard Theological Review 74:2 (1981) 129-159. Read this article on JSTOR.

James R. Davila, review of Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition by Bernard F. Batto. Journal of Biblical Literature 113:3 (1994) 506-508. Read this article on JSTOR

R. V. Foster, "The Word Elohim in Genesis I," The Old Testament Student 6:8 (1887) 241-243. Read this article on JSTOR.

Peter Harrison, "Subduing the Earth: Genesis 1, Early Modern Science, and the Exploitation of Nature," Journal of Religion 79:1 (1999) 86-109. Read this article on JSTOR.

John F. Healey, review of God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. Echoes of a Canaanite Myth in the Old Testament by John Day. Vetus Testamentum 36:4 (1986) 495-499. Read this article on JSTOR

Ronald S. Hendel, review of Structure, Role, and Ideology in the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Genesis 1:1—2:3 by William P. Brown. Journal of Religion 74:4 (1994) 596. Read this article on JSTOR.

Thorkild Jacobsen, "The Battle between Marduk and Tiamat," Journal of the American Oriental Society 88:1 (1968) 104-108. Read this article on JSTOR.

Arvid S. Kapelrud, "The Mythological Features in Genesis Chapter I and the Author's Intentions," Vetus Testamentum 24:2 (1974) 178-186. Read this article on JSTOR.

Florence B. Lovell, "Biblical and Classical Myths," The Classical Journal 50:6 (1955) 271-278 & 288. Read this article on JSTOR.

Herbert Gordon May, "The Creation of Light in Genesis 1:3-5," Journal of Biblical Literature 58:3 (1939) 203-211. Read this article on JSTOR.

Julian Morgenstern, "The Sources of the Creation Story -- Genesis 1:1-2:4" The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 36:3 (1920) 169-212. Read this article on JSTOR

Yochanan Muffs, "A History of Mesopotamian Religion," Numen 25:1 (1978) 80-84. Read this article on JSTOR.

David Neiman, "The Supercaelian Sea" Journal of Near Eastern Studies 28:4 (1969) 243-249. Read this article on JSTOR

Harry M. Orlinsky, "The Plain Meaning of Ruach in Gen. 1.2," Jewish Quarterly Review, N.S. 48:2 (1957) 174-182. Read this article on JSTOR

Harry M. Orlinsky, "Enigmatic Bible Passages: The Plain Meaning of Genesis 1:1-3," The Biblical Archaeologist 46:4 (1983) 207-209. Read this article on JSTOR.

Elaine H. Pagels, "Exegesis of Genesis 1 in the Gospels of Thomas and John," Journal of Biblical Literature 118:3 (1999) 477-496. Read this article on JSTOR.

Lewis Bayles Paton, "Archaeology and the Book of Genesis. I. Creation. II. The Origin of Man" The Biblical World 45:1 (1915) 10–17. Read this article on

A. Seidenberg, "The Separation of Sky and Earth at Creation, I" Folklore 70:3 (1959) 477-482. Read this article on JSTOR.

A. Seidenberg, "The Separation of Sky and Earth at Creation, II" Folklore 80:3 (1969) 188-196. Read this article on JSTOR.

Leroy Waterman, "Cosmogonic Affinities in Genesis 1:2" The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 43:3 (1927) 177-184. Read this article on JSTOR.

C. F. Whitley, "The Pattern of Creation in Genesis, Chapter 1," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 17:1 (1958) 32-40. Read this article on JSTOR.