Chapters 1–11 of Genesis are like a poetic prologue to the early history of ... and explains their religious significance and their place in the Bible as a whole. Introductory sections on the sources ...

Conventional learned commentaries on the first book of the Bible often concentrate on the reconstructed history of the traditions ... Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another ...

Calvin’s Moses, like Robinson, knows how to light God. Now Robinson has written her own exegesis of the first book of the Bible, called Reading Genesis. It follows Calvin’s in treating scripture as ...

Of the Flood, she writes: “Turbulence is introduced into the Genesis Creation by human beings ... How should we interpret the bible? How is the language meaningful? If it speaks of the Fall ...

In other words: “Leave me alone. I’ve got mine, and you’ve got yours, and that is all that really matters. Let us retreat ...

Many Christians would accept that the central message of both Genesis 1 and 2, whether seen as one ... Christians believe that as the Bible comes directly from God, everything in it must be ...

There are some contradictions between the two accounts in Genesis 1 and 2, such as the order of when animals and humans were created: Genesis 1 - it states that animals, and finally humans ...

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy ... the deceit of Jacob in Genesis 27, incest in Genesis 19:32 and inhumanity in Psalm 137:9. Also in Hosea 1:2, God commands ...

Those who read Vol. 231: “What You Should Know About King Solomon, Part 1” might remember this important answer, which ...

The five books of Pentateuch (Genesis ... part of the Bible are somewhat later: the latest is probably Daniel, which comes from the mid-second century. From Many Books to the One Book How did ...

Using the Age of Sail as a lens to examine topics still relevant today - what motivates people to rebel against deprivation and poor governance - The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and ...