The Book of Genesis is not some knock-off version of the truth. It needs no workarounds. The voices of those that make them sound much too similar to that of the serpent who questioned Eve: “Has ...

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.

He also wrote his landmark book, “Understanding Genesis,” a volume that remains in print almost 40 years later, and that has taught countless students how to read the book of Genesis with ...

Robinson’s main claim is that Genesis invented a kind of realism—this-worldly, nonmythological—remarkably akin to our understanding of the term. This is outrageous, impossible to defend—if ...

From its very first sentence, the Book of Genesis represents a revolution in thought and ethics against ANE amoral polytheism. Yet without a commentary like this one, the reader may miss all of that.

And all this discourse turns on a book so interpreted and reinterpreted that it’s nearly impossible to read what Biblical literalists call the “plain sense” of the text: try understanding ...