The Beginning and the End: Rereading Genesis's Stories and Revelation's Visions

Pahl, Michael

ISBN 10: 1608999270 / ISBN 13: 9781608999279

Published by Cascade Books, United States, 2011

About this Item

paperback, a very well preserved tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, xii + 103pp.

Seller Inventory # 294126

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Beginning and the End: Rereading Genesis's Stories and Revelation's Visions
• Publisher: Cascade Books, United States
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608999270
• ISBN 13: 9781608999279
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Have you ever wondered if there might be more to Genesis than fodder for anti-evolutionism? Or have you ever thought, 'Revelation has to be more than simply a roadmap for the future of the Middle East'? You're not alone. In The Beginning and the End Michael Pahl surveys the opening chapters of Genesis and the concluding chapters of Revelation, taking seriously both their historical and literary features as ancient texts and their theological purposes as inspired Scripture. The result is a reading of the first and last books of the Bible that sketches out, from beginning to end, a story of God, humanity, and all creation--a grand narrative in which we are placed in the middle, and which calls us to live in a particular way as our identity and our values are shaped in light of our origins and our destiny.

About the Author

Michael W. Pahl (PhD Theology, Birmingham, UK) is Pastor at Lendrum Mennonite Brethren Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has taught biblical studies and theology for over ten years in college and seminary settings in Canada and the UK, and he is the author of Discerning the 'Word of the Lord' (2009) and co-editor of The Sacred Text (2010).