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2024-03 - Hardcover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374299408
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Reading Genesis
By Robinson, Marilynne




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One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling
interpretation of the book of Genesis.

For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a
collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional
interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as
derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on
the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has
centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.

Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its greatness as
literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate
through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne Robinson's Reading Genesis, which
includes the full text of the King James Version of the book, is a powerful
consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God's enduring covenant
with humanity. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and
benevolence of God's abiding faith in Creation.



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