Translating the Bible into the Cherokee language in the 18th century was a feat for speakers and linguists at the time due to ...

Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It covers the period from Creation to the death and burial of Jacob. It also contains the flood and the story of Joseph, among other exciting events. Usually, ...

What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...

The Bible's first book is the focus of this contribution by Hendel, professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish studies at the University of California, Berkeley, to Princeton's Lives of Great Religious ...

Marilynne Robinson’s novels always leave me with a visceral impression of celestial light. Heavenly bulbs seem to switch on at climactic moments, showing a world as undimmed as it was at Creation. “I ...

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 ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

More than 100 international researchers recently convened for a three-day symposium to discuss new evidence that the Biblical ark from the book of Genesis made landfall at Mount Ararat in Turkey, ...