IntheBeginning_ANewInterpretationofGenes.epub

ALSO BY KAREN ARMSTRONG Through the Narrow Gate Beginning the World The First Christian: St. Paul’s Impact on Christianity Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity’s Creation of the Sex War in the West Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths For Kate Jones and John Tackaberry Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication A NEW INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS Wrestling with God and Scripture Beginnings Creation An Initial Complexity Blessing Fact or Fiction? Separation Knowledge The Possibility of Evil Sin and Curse Cain and Abel The “Evil Inclination” The Flood Noah The Ark The New Adam The Tower of Babel Abraham Lot Abraham and Pharaoh The Friend of God Family Values Isaac Rebekah Jacob and Esau The Blessing of Jacob Jacob’s Ladder A Blessing or a Curse? Jacob Agonistes The......