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In The Universal Story, Dru Johnson shows how Genesis 1–11 is written in a way that informs the rest of biblical history—including the exodus, the kings of Israel, the exile, the Gospels, and early church. Genesis 1–11 presents a story of humanity that seeks to explain the background of every human endeavor. It is the universal story—the story of stories—because it is a story about how all of...

Though most admit there are three major parts to Genesis, the interconnected web of themes and language can be overlooked if we read the book as three separate parts. For instance, Stephen B. Chapman shows that the Joseph story signals a small reversal of the Eden narrative in Genesis 3.2 Unlike the first man and the patriarchs, Joseph is the only male in Genesis that doesn’t listen to a woman with a wayward desire. When Potiphar’s wife seeks him sexually “day by day” (compare Gen 3:17; 16:2–3;
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