Stories of the Beginning: Genesis 1-11 and Other Creation Stories

by Ellen Van Wolde

Here, by a leading Dutch woman biblical theologian who studied under Umberto Eco, is a brilliant new approach to the creation stories in the first eleven chapters of Genesis. Contrary to those who believe that our time is seeing the end of the great stories and that only science and the facts count, she argues that storytellers and poets can stand closer to experience and feelings and give expression to something which is equally a given, and that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081921714X
• ISBN13: 9780819217141
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"