Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...

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, ...

The book contains as an appendix the entire text of Genesis in the Revised Standard Version. My one serious query was whether Robinson might usefully have chosen another version – either the King ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In Liana Finck’s Book of Genesis, Lilith is the Serpent, Joseph wears a merman tail and God is a woman. The New Yorker cartoonist’s latest graphic novel, “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her ...

The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks explains the enduring relevance of the first book of the Torah in the introduction to his new book, 'Covenant & Conversation volume I', a collection of his essays on ...

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 ...

A very specific quirk, but an entertaining one: Google spits out results related to the Book of Genesis from Wikipedia and the website of The Holy See and the band Genesis when you search for some ...

Why you shouldn’t skip over the R-rated parts of Genesis. This is the second article in a short “Genesis January” series to help people explore the complexity of the Bible at the start of a new year.