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Reading 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...

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Main Author: Robinson, Marilynne (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bible. > Genesis. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
Creation.
Christianity.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:344 pages 22 cm.
ISBN:9780374299408
Author Notes:Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home , winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack , a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping , won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things , When I Was a Child I Read Books , Absence of Mind , The Death of Adam , and Mother Country . She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." Robinson lives in California.

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