Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another level altogether. She insists that we read the book as a genuine composition, not an awkward patchwork, asking all the time, “What work ...

Calvin’s Moses, like Robinson, knows how to light God. Now Robinson has written her own exegesis of the first book of the Bible, called Reading Genesis. It follows Calvin’s in treating scripture as ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

According to the book of Genesis, an Egyptian Pharaoh had two troubling dreams – one about seven fat and seven skinny cows and another about seven full heads of grain growing on a single stalk.

Of the Flood, she writes: “Turbulence is introduced into the Genesis Creation by human beings, and it is utterly meaningful,” and “humankind is a moral actor in this drama, not simply a ...