In the Beginning: A new reading of the Book of Genesis: New Interpretation of Genesis - Tapa blanda

‘This is a remarkable introduction to perhaps the foundation text of our civilisation. The author has absorbed a good deal of scholarship as well as interpretation from the Jewish world. Yet she wears her learning lightly and with style. The book is a good read; the style meditative.’
Angela Tilby, The Church Times

The first book of the Bible has long been a focus for debate, not least over what it tells us about our earliest relationship with God. Here Karen Armstrong offers a compelling introduction to Genesis.

The NRSV version of the text is published alongside for ease of cross-reference. Armstrong’s commentary offers a wise analysis of some of the most complicated human relationships in the Bible. From Adam and Noah to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, these people are constantly wrestling for an insight into God and being hampered by their own imperfections and family feuds. Armstrong argues that Genesis is more about separation than sin, revealing humanity ‘s increasing distance from direct communication with God and our discovery of finding signposts towards the sacred in each other.