In the beginning : a new interpretation of Genesis

By:

Karen Armstrong

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Ballantine Books 1997.Description: 195ISBN:

0345406044

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

222.1106 K145 I 23131

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Chinmaya International Foundation General Stacks	General	222.1106 K145 I 23131 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	23131

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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