Much of the literary landscape of Wallace Stegner's prose is the literal landscape of the Rocky Mountain region that extends roughly from Colorado over to Utah and into Nevada, up to Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, and into parts of Canada. This area is "St...

Historian, biographer, essayist, short-story writer, and, above all, novelist--Wallace Stegner has been recognized as a genuine Westerner who wrote of the West with deep knowledge, empathy, and great sophistication. Often ignored by the Eastern literary...

Wallace Stegner has had a productive, distinguished career as a writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. His novels are realistic in manner and almost invariably set in the western United States. Yet his primary interest is not in places as such,...

The first book of the *Bible. The Book of Genesis tells of the *creation of the universe, the story of the first human beings (see *ADAM and *EVE), the history of the great *flood, the exploits of the patriarchs *Abraham, *Isaac and *Jacob and the...

(Hebrew: Bereshit) The first book of the Five Books of Moses, which tells the story of the creation of the world and of the first generations of humankind, ten from Adam, the first human being, to Noah, the one righteous man of his generation, and ten...

(Hebrew: “In the beginning”) The Hebrew title of the first book of the Five Books of Moses, Genesis. See...

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GENESIS is a project maintained by The Women's Library at London Metropolitan University. It provides an online database and a list of sources with an intent to support research into women's...

Genesis. By David Cotter. Berit Olam: Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2003, xxxviii + 366 pp., $49.95. Readers of the Journal are probably already familiar with David Cotter's respected dissertation published in the SBL dissertation series entitled A Study...

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...

Too many people, Phil Collins says, tend to forget the genesis of a rock 'n' roll band. Especially his own."They were friends first and they got together to play music," says the drummer and singer who is back as frontman for Genesis as it returns...

A new inflatable, unmanned test module for a proposed private space station was launched into orbit Thursday aboard a Russian rocket, the U.S. company developing the technology said.The Dnepr rocket carrying the Genesis II module lifted off shortly after 7 p.m. local time from the...

In the following essay, Von Rad asserts that the book of Genesis should not be viewed as an independent work; rather, it is “significantly related” to the five Biblical books that follow it. Together, these six books—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—are commonly designated as the Hexateuch. Von Rad goes on to discuss the theme of the Hexateuch, and the development of the source materials into their current Biblical form.

In the following essay, Ralston examines the composition and themes of Genesis, maintaining that the book emphasizes man's separation from God.

In the following essay, the critics use two sections of Genesis, believed by many scholars to have been written by different authors, in order to examine the relationship between discourse and power. The critics maintain that the two texts complement one another and present a complete, balanced, persuasive vision of God's power.

Essay provides an analysis of Genesis 18.

Discusses the book of Genesis from the Old Testament. Summarizes the chapter. Attempts to decipher its message.

Explores stories from Genesis. Describes how many of the stories can be seen as representative of different stages of human development. Considers if the stories suggest growth or stasis.