Genesis
The opening book of the Hebrew Bible runs from the creation of the world to Jacob's family settling in Egypt. Along the way come the garden and the fall, Cain and Abel, the flood, Babel, and the covenant with Abraham. The West's foundational grammar of origins, exile and promise.
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Lineage
- influenced by ↑ The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ↑ The Enuma Elish
- ↓ The Divine Comedy
- ↓ Paradise Lost
- ↓ The Rainbow
- ↓ Slaughterhouse-Five
- ↓ Pandora's Box
- ↓ The Grapes of Wrath
- ↓ East of Eden
- ↓ The Merchant of Venice
- ↓ The Book of Exodus
- ↓ The Book of Ruth
- ↓ The Book of Esther
- ↓ Surah Yusuf (The Qur'an)
- ↓ The Legend of the Ages
- ↓ Billy Budd
- ↓ Esau and Jacob
- ↓ Children of Gebelawi
- ↓ Joseph and His Brothers
- ↓ The Magician's Nephew
- ↓ The Handmaid's Tale
- ↓ Crow
- ↓ A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
- ↓ Cleanness
- ↓ Cain
- ↓ Carrion Comfort
- ↓ The Book of Urizen
- ↓ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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