A Commentary on the Book of Genesis

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A Commentary on the Book of Genesis

Robert D. Sacks

Role: Author

Sachs has been a Tutor at St. John鈥檚 College for over thirty years and is a well renowned translator of Aristotle and Plato.

This volume on the Book of Genesis is greatly influenced by memories of conversations with between Robert D. Sacks and Leo Strauss. In this book Sacks shows The Book of Genesis to be an introduction to a grand failure of a people beginning as slaves in Egypt and ending as slaves in Babylon. An artful and well-constructed account, Genesis is viewed as intending to reveal the deepest causes of failure to those who were about to begin all over again.