The Book of Genesis is not some knock-off version of the truth. ... Recent workarounds assert that Genesis 1 is meant to provide the meaning behind creation rather than actual historical details.

The Structure Of Genesis. The style of Genesis indicates even to the casual student that the book as we have it comes from one hand. There is, for one thing, the unusual structure of the book.

A primordial sun also shines upon Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of Robinson’s Gilead quartet (Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack).In Home, Jack restores the broken-down family car, an old DeSoto ...

The topic arises ordinarily and early in the book of Genesis. Both creation accounts end with sexualized humans. In Genesis 1, we read, “In the image of God he created them, male and female he ...

The meaning of Hagar. ... The book of Genesis evokes the vernal moment, the very spring of Being, when new light awakens fecundity, and futurity, in anything it touches.

James Wood reviews “Reading Genesis,” by Marilynne Robinson, the novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Gilead” and “Housekeeping.” ...