Do-it-yourself Genesis.(new books on Bible)

From: National Review | Date: December 9, 1996| Author: Neusner, Jacob | Copyright information

Seven new books on Genesis are out in Dec 1996, and most of them are not worth reading. Most of these books are self-centered or poorly written, but 'Genesis: A New Translation of the Classic Biblical Stories,' translated by Stephen Mitchell, is well done.

NEARLY a century and a half after Darwin published The Origin of Species and three-quarters of a century after the Scopes trial, who would have predicted that anybody, except for the most hard-bitten of believers, would ever agai...

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