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Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation: A Discursive Commentary on Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new commentary on Genesis 1–11, the so-called “primeval history” in which the account of creation is given. Blenkinsopp argues that, from a biblical point of view, creation cannot be restricted to a single event, nor to two versions of an event, as depicted in Genesis 1–3. Rather, it must take in the whole period of creation arranged in the sequence of creation,...

for all three protagonists the verdicts simply correspond to the conditions of life lived in the real world in that culture and in others: the hard labour of the agriculturalist, the pains of childbearing, the inevitable pains and frustrations inseparable from man and woman living together, even the fascination and fear inspired by snakes and their peculiar and unique appearance and behaviour (Gen. 3:14–19). The sentences, therefore, do no more than describe life in the real world at that time and
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