In the beginning : a new interpretation of Genesis
Material type:
- 0345406044
- 222.1106 K145 I 23131
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Presents a new interpretation of the stories of Genesis, explaining how these ancient tales illuminate the human quest for meaning and the struggle between good and evil.
Wrestling with God and scripture --Beginnings --Creation -
An initial complexity --Blessing --Fact or fiction? --Separation --
Knowledge --The possibility of evil --Sin and curse --
Cain and Abel --The "evil inclincation" --The flood --
Noah --The ark --The new Adam --The tower of Babel --Abraham --Lot --Abraham and Pharaoh --The friend of God --
Family values --Isaac --Rebekah --Jacob and Esau --The blessing of Jacob --Jacob's ladder --A blessing or a curse? --Jacob agonistes --The rape of Dinah --The fall of Jacob --Joseph --Judah and Tamar --Joseph in Egypt --Recognition --
Judah's intervention --A happy ending? --Jacob's blessing --No last word --The book of Genesis.
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