What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...

Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It covers the period from Creation to the death and burial of Jacob. It also contains the flood and the story of Joseph, among other exciting events. Usually, ...

The Bible's first book is the focus of this contribution by Hendel, professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish studies at the University of California, Berkeley, to Princeton's Lives of Great Religious ...

Marilynne Robinson’s novels always leave me with a visceral impression of celestial light. Heavenly bulbs seem to switch on at climactic moments, showing a world as undimmed as it was at Creation. “I ...

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 ...

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The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote lecture titled “Sibling Rivalry in the Book of Genesis” Wednesday, March 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Anthony Wexler, a SAGES Teaching Fellow and ...