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In this clear and readable style Walter Brueggemann presents Genesis as a single book set within the context of the whole of biblical revelation. He sees his task as bringing the text close to the faith and ministry of the church. He interprets Genesis as a proclamation of God's decisive dealing with creation rather than as history of myth. Brueggemann's impressive perspective illuminates the...

description but lyric, not argumentation but poetry. The texts most closely paralleled to Gen. 1:1–2:4a are not scientific explorations but the Psalms which speak of God’s generosity and the world’s grateful response. Thus, the morning and evening shout for joy (Ps. 65:8). God waters, enriches, blesses, and crowns (vv. 9–11); and as a result, the hills are wrapped in joy (v. 12) and sing and shout for joy (v. 13). God’s movement toward creation is unceasing generosity. The response of creation is
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