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100			_aKaren Armstrong
245			_a In the beginning : a new interpretation of Genesis
260			_aNew York _bBallantine Books _c 1997.
300			_a195
500			_aPresents 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.
505			_a 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.
650			_aBible-Genesis
650			_aCriticism, interpretation
942			_cBK