The Structure Of Genesis. The style of Genesis indicates even to the casual student that the book as we have it comes from one hand. There is, for one thing, the unusual structure of the book.

The Bible, Robinson declares in the first line of Reading Genesis, is “a theodicy, a meditation on the problem of evil.” So are the stories of Jacob and Jack. Why do they do what they do?

Just a little bit of study of the first book of Genesis shows, for example, that there is a very intriguing literary shape to this early Genesis. Day one is light; day four mentions the sun and ...

Marilynne Robinson makes the first book of the Old Testament new again in ‘Reading Genesis’ ... in another book. READING GENESIS. By Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 352 pp., $29.