Bible Review

It is in this sense (and not in its details) that Genesis 1 evokes parallels to Mesopotamia’s Enūma Elish, the “Creation Epic,” which claimed for the Babylonians (in some versions, also for Assyrians) that their nation was primordially selected for elevation.

K.R. Veenhof, “The Old Assyrian Hamuštum-Period: a Seven-Day Week,” Jarbricht van Het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap, Ex Oriente Lux 34 (1995–1997), pp. 5-26.

See Umberto Cassuto, A Commentary to Genesis (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1961), vol. 1, pp. 12-15.

See www.archaeology.org/online/news/stpaul.html.

John Dominic Crossan, The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991); see also Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993).

The report of the Jesus Seminar came in two volumes: Robert W. Funk and Roy Hoover, eds., The Five Gospels (New York: Macmillan, 1993), and Funk, The Acts of Jesus (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1998).

Especially, Borg, Jesus, the New Vision (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987), and the more popular Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1994).

N.T. Wright, Christian Origins and the Question of God, vol. 1, The New Testament and the People of God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), vol. 2, Jesus and the Victory of God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996), and vol. 3, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003).

Meier, A Marginal Jew.