The Genesis of Ethics.

National Review | December 9, 1996| | Copyright

From exploitation we move to self-celebration: people who use the stories of Genesis as take-off points for advertising their own brilliance. David Rosenberg asked writers -- big names like Arthur Miller, ingenues like Allegra Goodman -- "to divine" the minds and sensibilities of the Bible's original authors. Each, in Rosenberg's words, is to "use his or her own experience as a narrator to provide a link with the Biblical author . . . these writers read the Bible as authors who are sensitive to the dynamic act of writing." How does this work in practice? Rosenberg did his ...

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