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Article: The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 9, 1996
- Author:
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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 the Bible's original authors. Each, in Rosenberg's words, is to "use his or her own experience as a narrator to provide a link with the Biblical author . . . these writers read the Bible as authors who are sensitive to the dynamic act of writing." How does this work in practice? Rosenberg did his writers no favor by not editing them. Geoffrey Hartman typifies the lot of them: self-indulgent ...
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