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Genesis as dialogue
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- Book Synopsis
- Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis - the first book of the Bible - and a foundational text of Western culture. In this new commentary, Thomas Brodie offers a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical standpoints. Brodie's work is organized around three main ideas: the first is that the primary subject of Genesis is human existence - while full of historical echoes, it is primarily a sophisticated portrayal of the progress and pitfalls of human life. His second thesis is that Genesis' basic organizational unity is binary, or diptych: building on older insights that Genesis is somehow dialogical, he argues that the entire book is composed of diptychs - accounts which, like some paintings, consist of two parts or panels. Finally, Brodie contends that many of Genesis' sources still exist, and can be identified and verified.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780195138368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (06 September 2001)
- Number of Pages
- 579
- Weight
- 993 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 243 x 165 x 39.9 mm
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