What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...
Translating the Bible into the Cherokee language in the 18th century was a feat for speakers and linguists at the time due to ...
Unperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims. In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne ...
2) figurative / symbolic / allegorical interpretation. 3) a mixture of both. Does either the Bible or Catholicism require, for example, the serpent in Genesis to be taken absolutely literally in all ...
DENVER – In the enlightening new documentary, IS GENESIS HISTORY?, Dr. Del Tackett takes audiences on a remarkable journey to explore evidence that supports historic claims of the Book of Genesis with ...
If you put a copy of R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis Illustrated” (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., $24.95) on your coffee table during the upcoming holiday season, I promise you that it will catch and ...
Many people believe that according to the Bible, there has been a cosmic Fall as a result of the sin of the first humans, and death was a consequence of this supposed Fall. Many such approaches to ...
The Bible begins with an interesting introductory statement on the origin of creation in Genesis 1:1 which reads; Gen 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The creation ...
It's very hard to teach John Milton's "Paradise Lost" or John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" to students who have no knowledge of the Book of Genesis. The Bible's prodigious influence on Western culture - ...
This is the first of a short “Genesis January” series helping people explore the complexity of the Bible at the start of a new year. My wife’s college roommate would sometimes tell people, “I’m a ...
There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...