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.

In the book of Genesis men are called upon to practice coitus interruptus, commonly known as the "withdrawal" method. 384-322 B.C. The Greek philosopher Aristotle is thought to be the first person ...

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 ...

For example, the devil and the apple, although well known, are not mentioned in the version of the story found in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. More startling is the fact there ...

Nicholas Rodger - All Souls College, Oxford ‘It's hard to know where to begin in praise of The Genesis of Rebellion. For starters, this book represents comparative historical sociology at its very ...