It appears to be the first in a series of studies on books of the Bible, examining their composition and reception in depth, or at least it is hoped to be so. These twenty-nine remarkable essays expand ordinary topics to include interpretations of textual transmission and the history of the book's reception, the beginning of critical reading, historical content, and literary analysis. A term meaning " second cannon." Books included in the Catholic Old Testament but not in Hebrew scriptures. These additions are 1 and 2 Maccabees, Judith,Tobit, and parts of Esther and Daniel. Book of Genesis:Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. / David L. Petersen,Joel N. Lohr,and Craig A. Evans. (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum.) Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity:Encounters Between Jewish and Christian Exegesis. / Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling. Joel S. Kaminsky, The Theology of Genesis, in The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception,and Interpretation, ed. Craig A Evans, Joel N Lohr, and David L Petersen, VTSup 152 (Leiden:Brill, 2012), 635. 4. Kaminsky, Theology of Genesis, 635. The story of Moses, there is a lot of narrative in the Pentateuch, apart from Leviticus The fundamental literary-historical separation of Genesis and the Moses story proposed in my book relies on fundamental observations made in 1928 Kurt Galling and in 1943 Martin Noth. Furthermore, Albert de Pury and Thomas R