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

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 ...

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 band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and ... The five books of Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy ...

1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential ...

Some Christians believe that the Bible accounts and stories ... The authors of the biblical books had limited knowledge of science and the world, so the Genesis account was their way of trying ...