Conventional learned commentaries on the first book of the Bible often concentrate on the reconstructed ... Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another level altogether. She insists ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

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 ...

The P source, in fact, frames the Torah with its own material: The first chapter of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, is from the P source, and most of the last chapter of the last book of the ...

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 ...

This week’s biblical reading, from Genesis, aligns with Israel’s defense decisions, mixing ancient themes with modern ...

Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...

The Cambridge Companion to Genesis explores the first book of the Bible, the book that serves as the foundation for the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures. Recognizing its unique position in world history, ...

Revelation 22:19 All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired ... the Torah (i.e. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deut.), ...

Genesis 11 is the story of how humans soon ... early Christians believed that the Hebrew Bible was God's book, and therefore a book that should cast light on current events and moral conundrums.

The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at the ...

Nicholas Rodger - All Souls College, Oxford ‘It's hard to know where to begin in praise of The Genesis of Rebellion. For starters, this book represents comparative historical sociology at its very ...