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 ...

Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis, by John R. Coats, is pretty much a self-explanatory book by the title alone. Coats examines the first book of the Bible through a new set of eyes.

A couple of months ago it occurred to me that having a copy of the Bible on my portable reading device would be convenient, given that citations turn up in even the most secular of texts. And as ...

The Book of Genesis: A Biography. By Ronald Hendel. Princeton University Press; 293 pages; $24.95 and £16.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk “IN THE beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, ...

Australians love a long weekend, and our longest long weekend is this week’s. I don’t hear anybody complaining about having Friday and Monday off, but Easter itself — apart from a few chocolate egg ...

The Book of Genesis would seem to be perfect material for R. Crumb. It's a hallowed text, after all, and therefore furnishes a pristine foundation for Crumb to unleash his anarchical counterpunches -- ...