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Reading Genesis Well: Navigating History, Poetry, Science, and Truth in Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to be a good reader of Genesis 1–11? What does it mean to take these ancient stories seriously and how does that relate to taking them literally? Can we even take any of this material seriously? Reading Genesis Well answers these questions and more, promoting a responsible conversation about how science and biblical faith relate by developing a rigorous approach to interpreting...

Anyone familiar with Judaism and Christianity recognizes that these religions place great value on the book of Genesis, especially on its first eleven chapters. Responses to these chapters range from outright skepticism (as in, “How can anyone intellectually responsible credit these ideas at all?”); to critical appreciation (“the texts are wrong about history and science if we take them literally, but they still teach us valuable moral lessons”); to strong affirmation (“these
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