So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died. Seth lived one hundred and five years and became the father of Enosh.” Genesis ...
Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...
If you put a copy of R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis Illustrated” (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., $24.95) on your coffee table during the upcoming holiday season, I promise you that it will catch and ...
His religious upbringing might well be as unorthodox as the psychedelic-inspired comic-strip characters that have made R. Crumb the most famous underground artist of his time. Which, come to think of ...
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 ...
Creationists are often accused of believing that the whole Bible should be taken literally. The Old Testament opens with an account of creation, starting with what is arguably the most memorable line ...