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Genesis: The Story We Haven't Heard

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Genesis: The Story We Haven't Heard by Paul Borgman, IVP, 2001.

As the story of Genesis itself, Borgman's Genesis: The Story We Haven't Heard is a marvelous blend of literary, theological and historical insights. The author encourages readers to go ahead and be bothered by the text of Genesis to their profit. Nothing worse than a complacent reader who already knows what the narrative recounts.

Borgman's study of the Genesis text is excellent. This book is brimming with insights and Genesis readers are truly in Borgman's debt for producing such a fine volume. Reading the narratives in Genesis will never be quite the same after reading, The Story We Haven't Heard.

Specialist and non-specialist readers alike will profit from this book. Written in a very accessible style and with clarity, Borgman moves the reader through the text of Genesis pointing out a diversity of new perspectives that often go missed in the larger commentaries. His major focus is on the narratives concerning Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and Esau / Leah and Rachel, and Joseph. The book comprises a select bibliography and useful subject, author, and Scripture indexes.

Dr. G. Laughery

This is one of the best books I have read lately, taking over-familiar Bible stories and reading them with a close attentiveness to the actual text that yields fresh and fascinating perspectives. It's a pleasure to read a book that so often makes me go "Hmm, I hadn't thought of that, but it could make sense - must think about it some more." The book is also very readable - well-written and absorbing. Highly recommended.

Paul Borgman gets to the heart of the Genesis matter in Genesis: The Story We Haven't Heard. Through an absorbing analysis of the Biblical narrative, Borgman shows us that Genesis reveals truth in the way that all great literature reveals truth: through relationships. And what he keeps coming back to is that the most compelling story at the heart of Genesis is the relationship between God and His people, a story of partnership, parting, reconciliation, and--ultimately--love.

I first read Borgman's book on David and Saul and God, and was taken by surprise! How come I didn't see so many revealing details? it was indeed a revelation. the whole of it!! so, what other books did you say this Paul Borgman has written? Ah! That one on Genesis? No it could not be as good, as the other one, you know Genesis, it's just... well, it's Genesis, you know! well, no! just let Paul Borgmann read it to you...

I definitely know also what is my next reading... go on the search field of Amazon, yeah up there, type Paul Borgmann + Acts, there!

Paul Borgman's book on Genesis is a great one. He manages to give the reader new perspectives on these old stories many have heard thousands of times before. Personally I have heard these stories since I was a kid. I have heard dozens of preachers using the story of Abraham, so I did think I knew the story quite well. But after having read Borgman's book, these stories have become as new.

Especially I found it interesting how Borgman identifies a certain pattern or similarities between stories. Many of the narratives have parallell elements. Borgman is good reader and helps other readers to discover these parallell elements, let alone he helps us to discover when a certain pattern is broken, and how this affects how we should understand the story.

It is a great book and I will recommend it to everybody!

Another deep thinker creating his own answers rather than staying with biblical fact. Too bad.