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Creation and the Patriarchal Histories: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Genesis is foundational reading for the Christian. Its opening pages provide the theological suppositions of the entire biblical story: creation, the structure of time, man’s relationship to God, the entrance of sin into the world, and God’s selection of a specific line of revelation that gives structure to history. This text argues that early Christian writers like St. Paul saw no...

Because Genesis is found at the beginning of the Bible, no one is to be blamed for starting his Bible-reading with Genesis. This is perfectly logical. Many of us Christians, nonetheless, knew a good deal of the content of Holy Scripture before we ever got around to reading Genesis. There is a logic in this case too, for the simple reason that many of us, perhaps most of us, were introduced to Jesus before we were introduced to the full biblical account of history. That is to say, we
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