REL 312: OT Studies — Genesis:
Recommended Readings

Zofja Ameisenowa and W. F. Mainland "The Tree of Life in Jewish Iconography" Journal of the Warburg Institute 2:4 (1939) 326–345. Read this article on JSTOR. Contains Images.

Bailey, John A. "Initiantion and the Primal Woman in Gilgamesh and Genesis 2-3" Journal of Biblical Literature 89:2 (1970) 137–150. Read this article on JSTOR

Mieke Bal, "Sexuality, Sin and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character (A Reading of Genesis 1-3)," Poetics Today 6:1/2 (1985) 21–42. Read this article on JSTOR

George A. Barton. "A New Babylonian Parallel to a Part of Genesis 3." Journal of the American Oriental Society 39 (1919) 287. Read this article on JSTOR

C. M. Botley, "The Tree of Life" Folklore 79:3 (1968) 233. Read this article on JSTOR

Francis Brown, "A Recent Theory of the Garden of Eden," The Old Testament Student 4:1 (1884) 1–12. Read this article on JSTOR.

David G. Burke "Cherub, Cherubim" The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible (Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, eds.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Read this Book section at Oxford Reference Online.

Michael P. Carroll, "Leach, Genesis, and Structural Analysis: A Critical Evaluation" American Ethnologist 4:4 (1977), 663–677. Read this article on JSTOR

W. Malcolm Clark. "A Legal Background to the Yahwist's Use of 'Good and Evil' in Genesis 2-3" Journal of Biblical Literature 88:3 (1969) 266–278. Read this article on JSTOR

Ronald S. Hendel. "'The Flame of the Whirling Sword': A Note on Genesis 3:24. Journal of Biblical Literature 104:4 (1985) 671–674. Read this article on JSTOR

E. O. James, "The Tree of Life" Folklore 79:4 (1968) 241–249. Read this article on JSTOR

Robert B. Lawton. "Genesis 2:24: Trite or Tragic?" Journal of Biblical Literature 105:1 (1986) 97–98. Read this article on JSTOR

Ralph Marcus, "The Tree of Life in Proverbs," Journal of Biblical Literature 62:2 (1943) 117–120. Read this article on JSTOR

R. A. Martin. "The Earliest Messianic Interpretation of Genesis 3:15" Journal of Biblical Literature 84:4 (1965) 425–427. Read this article on JSTOR

Dennis T. Olson, "Eden, The Garden of" The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible (Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, eds.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Read this Book section at Oxford Reference Online

Ernest C. Richardson. "Vayifach of Genesis 2:7." Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis 5:1/2 (1885) 49–55. Read this article on JSTOR

Stanley N. Rosenbaum, "Israelite Homicide Law and the Term 'Enmity' in Genesis 3:15," Journal of Law and Religion 2:1 (1984) 145–151. Read this article on JSTOR

Jonathan Z. Smith, "The Garments of Shame," History of Religions 5:2 (1966) 217–238 Read this article on JSTOR

John M. Steadman. "'Sin' and the Serpent of Genesis 3: 'Paradise Lost', II, 650-53" Modern Philology 54:4 (1957) 217–220. Read this article on JSTOR

P. E. S. Thompson, "The Yahwist Creation Story" Vetus Testamentum 21:2 (1971) 197–208. Read this article on < ahref="http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0042-4935%28197104%2921%3A2%3C197%3ATYCS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X ">JSTOR.

Jerome T. Walsh. "Genesis 2:4b-3:24: A Synchronic Approach." Journal of Biblical Literature 96:2 (1977) 161–177. Read this article on JSTOR

Nicholas Wyatt, "When Adam Delved: The Meaning of Genesis III 23" Vetus Testamentum 38:1 (1988) 117–122. Read this article on JSTOR