The Legends of Genesis: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Legends of Genesis, credited to Hermann Gunkel, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Legends of Genesis, by Hermann Gunkel. Translated by William Herbert Carruth. Read by JoeD. The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance to the authors. Gunkel also uses form criticism to uncover buried clues as to the constituent sources of the text. Gunkel offers his hypothesis to explain how the various sources came to be combined and redacted, and how the text later came to be attributed to Moses. (Summary by JoeD)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Legends of Genesis
• Author credits: Hermann Gunkel
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 5:54:58

Catalogue topics

• Genesis
• Form Criticism
• Anthropology
• Religion

Track guide

1. 1 - Chapter 1 - The Significance and Scope of the Legends — 25:12
2. 2 - Chapter 2 - The Varieties of the Legends — 53:37
3. 3 - Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Literary Form of the Legends — 40:34
4. 4 - Chapter 3 Part 2 - The Literary Form of the Legends — 34:13
5. 5 - Chapter 3 Part 3 - The Literary Form of the Legends — 39:45
6. 6 - Chapter 4 Part 1 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition — 37:47
7. 7 - Chapter 4 Part 2 - History of the Development of the Legends in Oral Tradition — 39:05
8. 8 - Chapter 5 - Jahvist, Elohist, Jehovist, Later Collections — 49:00
9. 9 - Chapter 6 - Priestly Codex and Final Redaction — 35:49

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