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.

The book Let There Be Light – Genesis is a work that will appeal especially to readers who actively practice their Judaism, and also to any serious student of the Bible. The authors have set out to ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

The cover of R. Crumb’s newest work, an illustrated version of “The Book of Genesis,” contains a warning label: “ADULT SUPERVISION RECOMMENDED FOR MINORS.” Crumb says that he wanted to prevent people ...