Genesis 1-11
Published on 19. July 1973
Book
Paperback/Softback
132 pages
978-0-521-09760-4 (ISBN)
Description
Chapters 1-11 of Genesis are like a poetic prologue to the early history of the Jewish people and to their religion. For Christianity also they later fulfil a similar purpose. Professor Davidson takes these chapters as a separate unity, comments on them, and explains their religious significance and their place in the Bible as a whole. Introductory sections on the sources and purpose of the book, and the meaning of myth, lead straight into the text and commentary which alternate with each other in the style of the series.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
151 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-09760-4 (9780521097604)
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Genesis 1-11
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Robert Davidson
Genesis 1-11
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07/1973
Cambridge University Press
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Person
Robert Davidson was born in London, England in May 1947 and moved to Canada with his wife Heather in 1973.
Robert is a Chartered Accountant and Trust and Estate Practitioner and a fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He worked with various CA firms in London before joining Price Waterhouse in Toronto. After a 9 year spell as the CFO of a large private company he opened his own tax practice in Markham Ontario, running that until January 2010 when Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis made it impossible to service his clients.
Robert founded the Canadian Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation in late October 2009, just 3 months before his life-saving double lung transplant on January 30, 2010.
Robert and his wife live in Markham Ontario. He has two sons. Mark, who also lives in Markham with his wife, Alyshia and new baby daughter Alexis. His other son, Matthew, lives in Neurenberg, Germany where he works with Adidas and is marrying Gemma there in June 2013.
Content
The footnotes to the New English Bible text; Behind the book; The sources of the book; The purpose of Genesis 1-11; The meaning of myth; A note on further reading; Index.