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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Genesis at the Crossroads | |
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| Feminist-Advocacy Approaches and Biblical "Others" | |
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| Literary-Aesthetic Approaches and Biblical Ambiguity | |
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| Sociological Approaches and Biblical Authors | |
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| Who Wrote Genesis, and When? | |
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| Ezra-Nehemiah and the Interests of Yehud's Elite | |
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| Genesis and the Interests of Yehud's Elite | |
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| Plan of the Work | |
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| A Lot to Talk About | |
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| From Ur to Canaan (Genesis 11-12) | |
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| Separation (Genesis 13) | |
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| Abr(ah)am between Lot and Death (Genesis 14; 18) | |
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| Sodom's Destruction and Its Aftermath (Genesis 19) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Hearing Ishmael's Voice | |
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| Abram without Offspring (Genesis 15) | |
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| Ishmael's Prenatal (Mis)adventures (Genesis 16) | |
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| Ishmael and the Cutting of the Covenant (Genesis 17) | |
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| Ishmael behind the Tent Flaps? (Genesis 18; 20) | |
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| Ishmael Made Homeless (Genesis 21) | |
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| Out of Sight, Out of Mind? (Genesis 22) | |
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| Ishmael's Family (Gen 25:7-18) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Seeing Red | |
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| Esau before and at Birth (Gen 25:19-26) | |
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| The Sale of Esau's Birthright (Gen 25:27-34) | |
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| Esau's First Two Wives (Gen 26:34-35) | |
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| Jacob's Theft of Esau's Blessing (Genesis 27) | |
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| Aftermath to Jacob's Deceit (Gen 27:41-28:9) | |
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| Esau's Reunion with Jacob (Genesis 32-33) | |
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| Esau in Retrospect (Gen 36:1-8) | |
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| Summary | |
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| White Lies | |
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| Laban as Brother(-in-Law) (Genesis 24) | |
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| Laban as Father(-in-Law) (Genesis 29) | |
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| Laban's Loss, Jacob's Gain (Genesis 30) | |
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| Formal Separation (Genesis 31) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Genesis in Context | |
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| Genesis 12-36 and Its Ambiguities in Yehud | |
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| Lot and Yehud's Moabite and Ammonite Neighbors | |
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| Ishmael and Yehud's Arabian and Egyptian Neighbors | |
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| Esau and Yehud's Edomite Neighbors | |
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| Laban and Yehud's Mesopotamian Neighbors | |
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| The Dynamics of Diselection | |
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| Bibliography | |