Genesis 1-2 and Revelation 21-22 are necessary to understanding God’s purpose for our lives, and these “bookends” help narrow the “Sunday to Monday Gap.” Tom Nelson discusses the importance of the ...

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Some would suggest that the first verse of the first book of the Bible (Genesis 1:1) as its oldest: “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth.” Yet there are passages in the ...

Last year John F. Hobbins and I published Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators. Readers of the Volokh Conspiracy may remember the seven-part series I did on the ...

Kristin Swenson wants to give readers space to understand that the Bible is weird, and a box full of tools to deal with that weirdness. (RNS) — “Read the Bible every day.” A lot of Christians are told ...

Unperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims. In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne ...