In the Beginning: a New Interpretation of Genesis - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Armstrong, Karen

ISBN 10: 0679450890 / ISBN 13: 9780679450894

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996

About this Item

A Fine first Edition/First Printing in an equally Fine dust-jacket, there is a previous owner's library stamping on the front flyleaf and front dust-jacket cover; 195 pages. Seller Inventory # 59589

Bibliographic Details

Title: In the Beginning: a New Interpretation of ...

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

In this fascinating book by the author of A History of God and Jerusalem, one of the best-known and least-understood books of the Bible is clarified for modern readers. Armstrong shows readers how the ancient tales of the Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph illuminate our most profound and impenetrable problems.

Review:

Karen Armstrong makes reading the Bible a smooth and liberating experience. The brilliance of Armstrong's analysis of Genesis lies in her ability to draw together the story, the contemporaneous situations of the characters and the writers, and the relevance of themes amid multifarious contradictions, then hold them up for us to contemplate. Edifying and engaging, this short but impressive book comes complete with the entire Genesis text.