In the Beginning - A New Interpretation of Genesis PDF
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ALSO BY KAREN ARMSTRONG Through the Narrow Gate Beginning the World The First Christian: St. Paul’s Impact on Christianity Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity’s Creation of the Sex War in the West Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths A Ballantine Book Published by The Random House Publishing Group Copyright © 1996 by Karen Armstrong All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA for permission to reprint scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. www.ballantinebooks.com Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-94145 eISBN: 978-0-307-79861-9 This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. v3.1 For Kate Jones and John Tackaberry Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication A NEW INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS Wrestling with God and Scripture Beginnings Creation An Initial Complexity Blessing Fact or Fiction? Separation Knowledge The Possibility of Evil Sin and Curse Cain and Abel The “Evil Inclination” The Flood Noah The Ark The New Adam The Tower of Babel Abraham Lot Abraham and Pharaoh The Friend of God Family Values Isaac Rebekah Jacob and Esau The Blessing of Jacob Jacob’s Ladder A Blessing or a Curse? Jacob Agonistes The Rape of Dinah The Fall of Jacob Joseph Judah and Tamar Joseph in Egypt Recognition Judah’s Intervention A Happy Ending? Jacob’s Blessing No Last Word THE BOOK OF GENESIS Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Acknowledgments About the Author A NEW INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS
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