Reading Genesis
Author: Marilynne Robinson
ISBN: 978-0349018768
Price: Rs. 949.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
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.
Browse this title within our Theology & Philosophy of Religion collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 352 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0349018768.
About the Author
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 non-fiction 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 Iowa City, Iowa.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-0349018768
- Publisher
- Virago
- Pan-India Delivery
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What is this book about?
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...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Theology & Philosophy of Religion and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Marilynne Robinson.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book if you want to move beyond surface-level debates about Genesis. Instead of asking whether the text is simply literal or fragmented, it invites you into a richer, more coherent reading that takes scholarship seriously without draining the text of meaning. Thought-provoking and intellectually honest, it sharpens your understanding of how Genesis has been read, challenged, and reimagined—making it deeply rewarding for students, scholars, and thoughtful readers of scripture alike.
- Published by Virago.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 352.
Catalog Description
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.
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