Iain Provan here offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to the book of Genesis. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches as complementary rather than mutually exclusive ways of understanding, Discovering Genesis encourages students to dig deeply into the theological and historical questions raised by the text. It provides a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretive debates, focusing especially on the reception history of the biblical text, a subject of growing interest to students and scholars of the Bible.