What is the deal with all of the genealogies and family drama in the book of Genesis? Join me in this episode where I speak with scholar T. Desmond Alexander as we unlock the narrative plot to Genesis and seek to explain why these aspects in the story have such significant meaning to the whole book.
Recommended reading from our guest: ESV Study Bible: commentary on Genesis – by T.D. Alexander From Paradise to the Promised land- by T.D. Alexander
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