Questions About Eden: Biblical Fiction of the World's First Family

by Brennan S. McPherson (Goodreads Author)

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Hi, I'm wondering if this book is Christian in nature, or more like biblical mythology/fantasy?

Brock Meier This is a difficult question to answer. I would not say it is overtly “Christian.” For one thing, it stays close to the text of Genesis, the first boo…moreThis is a difficult question to answer. I would not say it is overtly “Christian.” For one thing, it stays close to the text of Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew bible. So, in a sense, it is more “Jewish” than it is “Christian.” And even the symbols and types contained within it, which some might claim to be “Christian,” are really, at the heart of it, “Jewish.” There is no mention anywhere in the book of the name “Jesus,” or of the term “Christian” or “church.” So, is it “Christian?” No more than Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (or Moses or David, for that matter) are “Christian.”
As far as it being “biblical mythology,” or “biblical fantasy,” I’m not quite sure what your defintion of those terms would be. It is, probably more accurately, “biblical fiction.” The author used the first few chapters of Genesis as his springboard to creatively imagine and write about the possible lives of the first family. The dialogue, and almost all of the events narrated, have been imagined by the author. But “there be NO dragons here,” or fairies, or sprites, or gnomes, if that’s what you mean by fantasy/myth.(less)

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