I’ve got sort of a followup question to the one somebody asked you about Abraham in a recent NCR article of yours. It’s about how to read Genesis 1-11. I’ve heard that Catholics tend to read those ...

You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things. This ordering plays an ongoing role among the Hebrew people. The ...

The first book of the Bible is Genesis. Written by Moses, and part of the Torah, Genesis 1 describes how the Universe was created. There are several theories about how the Universe was created. As you ...

In her 2009 monograph on cognitive linguistics for Biblical Studies Ellen Van Wolde argues that the verb אדב means "to separate" rather than the traditional understanding "to create." This ...