Genesis creation narrative
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛnɪsɪs krɪˈeɪʃən ˈnærətɪv/
- Literature
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narrativa de creación del Génesis
- The Genesis creation narrative describes how God created the world in six days.
Examples
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The Genesis creation narrative is foundational to Judeo-Christian understandings of the world's origin.
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Many artists have depicted scenes from the Genesis creation narrative in their works.
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Scholars often debate the interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative.
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Many people find the Genesis creation narrative to be a powerful story.
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Many artists have depicted scenes from the Genesis creation narrative in their works.
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The Genesis creation narrative is foundational to Judeo-Christian understandings of the world's origin.
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Many people find the Genesis creation narrative to be a powerful story.
Synonyms
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The first book of the Old Testament that tells how the world and first people began
Surface Forms
Morphology
Genesis + Creation + narrative
The meaning — the account of creation found in the Book of Genesis — is directly compositional from 'Genesis' (the book/name), 'creation' (the act of bringing into existence), and 'narrative' (an account). This is a straightforward referential noun phrase rather than an idiom, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Genesis creation narrative comes from the first book of the Bible, Genesis, which tells a simple story of God making light, sky, land, plants, animals and people in six days. Because it gives a clear story of the world's start, the phrase means 'the Biblical account of how the world began'.