In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
Karen Armstrong makes reading the Bible a smooth and liberating experience.  The brilliance of Armstrong's analysis of Genesis lies in her ability to draw together the  story, the contemporaneous situations of the characters and the writers, and the relevance  of themes amid multifarious contradictions, then hold them up for us to contemplate.  Edifying and engaging, this short but impressive book comes complete with the entire  Genesis text.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.