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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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, ...