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| Preface: The Professor and the Fossil | |
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| Introduction: The Beginning of Wisdom | |
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| Dangerous Beginnings: The Uninstructed Ways Genesis 1-11 | |
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| Awesome Beginnings: Man, Heaven, and the Created Order | |
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| The Follies of Freedom and Reason: The Story of the Garden of Eden (I) | |
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| The Vexed Question of Man and Woman: The Story of the Garden of Eden (II) | |
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| Fratricide and Founding: The Twisted Roots of Civilization | |
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| Death, Beautiful Women, and the Heroic Temptation: The Return of Chaos and the Flood | |
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| Elementary Justice: Man, Animals, and the Coming of Law and Covenant | |
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| Paternity and Piety: Noah and His Sons | |
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| Babel: The Failures of Civilization | |
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| Educating the Fathers Genesis 12-50 | |
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| Abraham (Genesis 12-25) | |
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| Educating the Fathers: Father Abraham | |
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| Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Marriage | |
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| Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Patriarchy | |
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| Isaac (Genesis 25-48) | |
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| Inheriting the Way: From Father to Son | |
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| The Education of Isaac: From Son to Patriarch | |
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| Jacob (Genesis 28-35) | |
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| The Adventures of Jacob: The Taming of the Shrewd | |
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| Brotherhood and Piety: Facing Esau, Seeing God | |
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| Politics and Piety: Jacob Becomes Israel | |
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| The Generations of Jacob: Joseph, Judah, and Their Brothers (Genesis 36-50) | |
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| The Generations of Jacob: The Question of Leadership | |
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| Joseph the Egyptian | |
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| Joseph and His Brothers: Estrangement and Recognition | |
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| Israel in Egypt: The Way Not Taken | |
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| Losing Joseph, Saving Israel: Jacob Preserves the Way | |
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| Epilogue: The End of the Beginning | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |