Toward a Poetics of Genesis 1–11
Lowery, Daniel D.
Daniel Lowery commences this work by suggesting that history is a subjective enterprise-it is controlled by those who record it. The power of the present decides what is counted as history, and how the rest of us are told about the past shapes our view of it and, concomitantly, our outlook for the future. In this sense, then, history fundamentally shapes the future. Few questions are more basic to human existence than Who am I? Where did I com...