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Analysis Of Ellen Hinsey: Behind The Book Of Genesis

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Behind the Book of Genesis Over time, we have heard the stories of Genesis and the different interpretations about this particular section of the Bible. First, we start with the creation of the world and the first flesh that roam the earth. Following that, we continue with Noah and the flood where God destroys all living things on Earth because evil prevails on the Earth. Then, Moses accepting the ten commandments to pass it down to the Israelites. Ellen Hinsey, author of the book The White Fire of Time, explains and describes the story of Cain and Abel in a different way that still follows how the Bible states it, but with some personal touch. To fully understand the second part in the ninth section in the poem called “Commentary on …show more content…

This could be due to the fact that she might think that there is more than one perspective to look at the Bible verse not only from the same view that has been given to us through history. For example, she starts her poem, “The first difference of kind from those same cells: / Firstborn followed by similitude—” she mentions the word cell (1-2). As well as in the line, “The mind, directed by the cell’s division,” considering this words later in her poem she also mentions how one could be born from the same mother but there is a difference genetically and how one thinks (19-21). We can also acknowledge that besides the stories from the book of Genesis: The Creation and Noah, she writes about Cain and Abel which we can conclude that this has to do with the tragedy that happen in her family which the details are unknown to us. This is a way to express her viewpoint about murder within your family seeing it ethically. In her poem, she uses italics to highlight the different voices from the Bible and the other is her ideas and thoughts about what is happening in that specific scene from another perspective relating it to what is in italics. Hinsey does this so that reader has more knowledge about what is going on in the scene of the Bible and provide a more technical observation of how envy works once it gets through …show more content…

The tone of God in Genesis in the book of Deuteronomy is more egotistical when he states, “‘you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God,’” (). God made sure that his laws were followed from generation to generation and he did this by giving them the ten commandments. The layout of Genesis in The Human Record it is what it is, it’s superficial, it does not go into deep meaning or into a philosophical perspective. Making it easier for readers to grasp the

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