Genesis articulates almost no Biblical law, though the story of Jacob’s wrestling explicitly provides the etiology of one. Genesis also contains genealogies, accounts of incest and war, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and a few snippets of Biblical poetry. God, the creator of the world, makes covenants with humankind after the flood and with the patriarchs. In the beginning, the first book, Genesis, tells the stories of the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, the Tower of Babel, the tribulations of the patriarchs ( Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), and Joseph, the protagonist of chapters 37-50. 6.5 Old Testament Theology and its Critics.6.4 The Impetus for Historical-critical Methods.6.3 Hermeneutics, Bible Interpretation, and Literary Theory.6.2 Influence of Biblical Research on Grammar and Linguistics.6.1 From Ancient to the New Historiography.6 The Bible and the Rise of Modern Scholarship.4.1 From Biblical into Karaite and Rabbinic law.3.6 The Bible and New Religious Movements (NRMs).3.4 Christian Exegesis and Biblical Theology.3.2 Religious, quasi-religious and related books.3.1 Uses of the Bible in Western Religion.2.2 Historical-critical Analysis of the Bible.2 The Making of the Books and the Canon.In addition, the Hebrew Bible contains the Writings (Nevi’im or Hagiography), encompassing historical books, psalms, proverbs, the satire of Esther, the eroticism of the Song of Solomon, and the wisdom of Ecclesiastes and Job. Prophetic books include three sizable works, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. (The Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and some Protestant versions of the Old Testament supplement the Hebrew Bible with apocryphal and deuterocanonical books.) All canons begin with the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses, known in Hebrew as the Torah. Notably, the Hebrew Bible canon in Judaism differs from Samaritan text and from some Christian versions of the Old Testament. So contested is the Hebrew Bible, there is disagreement about the exact text and ordering of the books of the Bible. As a subject of scholarship, the Hebrew Bible plays a dominant historical role in the fields of ancient history, grammar and linguistics, hermeneutics, historical-critical research, law, literary theory, religion and theology. As literature, it is a runaway bestseller upon which dozens of movies and countless art works are based. As scripture, the Hebrew Bible is the sine qua non of Judaism and sacred to Christians. The Hebrew Bible has inspired reviews, endless exegesis, polyglot translations, legal analysis, knock-offs, fan fiction, martyrdom and war. Indeed, its contested meanings speak to why the Hebrew Bible has significance. An ancient anthology, there is no consensus about when the component books were written, who were the authors, where they were composed, how the works came to be published as a canon, and what the books mean. The study of the Hebrew Bible as such is a relatively new academic discipline, intended to enable academics to discuss, analyse and reference these works without relying on comparisons to either a Christian or a secular viewpoint. The Hebrew Bible is a comparatively recent term used by scholars and academics in Jewish studies to describe the works of the ancient Hebrews that came to be accepted as the scriptures of Judaism.
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