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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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: 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, ...