In the Beginning ...

By Isaac Asimov

Book Overview

In our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings. In this line-by-line annotation of the first 11 chapters of Genesis, Isaac Asimov carefully and even-handedly compares the two accounts, pointing out where they are similar and where they are different.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517543362
• ISBN13: 9780517543368
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 0.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Presentation. Oversimplification

Asimov states well the historical probabilities of Genesis, but simplifies it beyond the area of possability.The J and P documents are well stated there, but if that were the whole story between Genesis 1 and 2 creation stories, then why did one of the accounts become apocraphal (much like the Keys of Enoch.)?Other than that, Asimov did a superb job in laying out Genesis as it was, a beautiful myth.

Science and God ,history and reallty...

It is two theroris,by science and by Bible of the creation of the world.You must read to understand