Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson, Suzanne Toren

eAudio - 2024

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis."[Suzanne] Toren's narration highlights Genesis as a work of literature that is especially beautiful when read aloud."—AudioFileFor 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 preclud...e 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... more