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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. This commentary aims to offer a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical standpoints. The author'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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Genesis as Dialogue
• Subtitle: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Commentary
• Author: Thomas L. Brodie
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 612
• EAN: 9780195138368
• ISBN: 0195138368
• ID: 04515130
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 992 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 164 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. September 2001

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