A Literary Creation: Literary Approaches to the Book of Genesis

Bar Ilan University provides videos of papers from a conference held in June 2014: A Literary Creation: Literary Approaches to the Book of Genesis.

Introduction

How to Drive Home a Revolutionary Ideopoetics: First Impressions in Genesis – Prof. Meir Sternberg

Gayle Rubin Meets the Women of Genesis – Prof. Susan Niditch

On the Structure of the Abraham Narratives – Prof. George Savran

Genesis 26: Deep Structure and Meaning – Sarah Schwartz

“A Fugitive Aramean Was My Father” – Prof. Ed Greenstein

To Tell or Not To Tell: The Case of Jacob in Shechem – Prof. Yair Zakovitch

“Call Me Ishmael”: Melville’s Genesis – Prof. Ilana Pardes

A Common Base for Jacob’s Four Masebot – Dr. Joshua Berman