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Visit rlf.org.uk for more information. You're listening to the LRB podcast. I'm Malin Hay.

The book of Genesis begins with the creation of the universe and ends with the deaths of Jacob, patriarch of the

Israelites, and his son Joseph. In between is a narrative in which successive generations of a

human family confront the moral choices laid before them by a righteous God, kick-starting

the Abrahamic religious tradition of the next 3,000 years. In her new book Reading Genesis, the American novelist

Marilynne Robinson explores the book's literary qualities and tries to answer the question of its

relevance in an age in which religion seems to have increasingly little to say to society.

Joining me today to discuss his recent LRB piece on Robinson's Reading Genesis is James Butler,

contributing editor at the paper and sometime host of the LRB podcast.

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