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Podcast: Marilynne Robinson on Reading Genesis

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21 March 2024

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On the podcast this week, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson talks about her new book, Reading Genesis, which has been described by Rowan Williams as “a work of exceptional wisdom and imagination”.

Marilynne Robinson is in conversation with Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College in Salisbury and Vice-Chair of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations. 

Reading Genesis is published by Virago and is available from the Church Times Bookshop for the special price of £20.

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