In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis

Armstrong, Karen

ISBN 10: 0679450890 / ISBN 13: 9780679450894

Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

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

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: NEW

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.