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Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on the Bible’s Earliest Chapters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent years, the Genesis narrative has sparked much debate among Christians. This Zondervan Counterpoints volume introduces three predominant interpretive genres and their implications for biblical understanding. Each contributor identifies his position on the genre of Genesis 1–11, addressing why it is appropriate to the text, and contributes examples of its application to a variety of...

to reverse course a century later as the accumulating evidence caved in on what was formerly considered an unassailable dogma of Scripture, tradition, and common sense. Time has only widened the breach between science and Genesis. From where we stand now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a time when we’ve sequenced the Neanderthal genome and traced out in the DNA our shared genetic heritage with primates and other mammals, it is no longer possible for informed readers to interpret the
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