Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another level altogether. She insists that we read the book as a genuine composition, not an awkward patchwork, asking all the time, “What work ...
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 painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
In the book of Genesis men are called upon to practice coitus interruptus, commonly known as the "withdrawal" method. 384-322 B.C. The Greek philosopher Aristotle is thought to be the first person ...
Of the Flood, she writes: “Turbulence is introduced into the Genesis Creation by human beings, and it is utterly meaningful,” and “humankind is a moral actor in this drama, not simply a ...
According to the book of Genesis, an Egyptian Pharaoh had two troubling dreams – one about seven fat and seven skinny cows and another about seven full heads of grain growing on a single stalk.
Jewish communities worldwide were reading the weekly portion of Parshat Bereshit – the very beginning of the Bible’s Book of Genesis. In it, we find the account of creation, where God brings ...
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 ...
Genesis Publications just announced its latest limited edition book, a collaboration between legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk ...