Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another level altogether. She insists that we read the book as a genuine composition, not an awkward patchwork, asking all the time, “What work ...
Calvin’s Moses, like Robinson, knows how to light God. Now Robinson has written her own exegesis of the first book of the Bible, called Reading Genesis. It follows Calvin’s in treating scripture as ...
For example, the devil and the apple, although well known, are not mentioned in the version of the story found in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. More startling is the fact there ...