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Genesis

Walt Disney’s Genesis or Tom Cruise plays Noah

November 9, 2009

Peter Enns draws attention with a very favourable review to the Old Testament set of the Bible Backgrounds Commentary. He sees it a really good set for

“bridging the gap” between the state of Old Testament scholarship and every-day Bible readers, a gap that is remarkably large, given the fact that so much information has been [...]

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New Bible with graphic sex

October 19, 2009

Well, graphic everything actually since it’s Genesis the graphic novel by Robert Crumb. Early newspaper reports seem to be trying to stir controversy following the publisher’s spin. Bishop Nick Baines offers the press the sort of response that will disappoint them: sane about the reality of Genesis and its content.
Oh, yes, because the graphic sex [...]

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The end of “creation” as we know it? I think not.

October 8, 2009

Claude Mariottini passes on the news that:

Professor Ellen Van Wolde, an Old Testament scholar and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, said that Genesis 1:1 has been translated incorrectly and that a correct translation of the first verse of Genesis negates the view that God is the creator of heavens and earth.

The report he [...]

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Did the serpent get it right?

August 10, 2009

Claude Mariottini has a provocative post today on the interpretation of Genesis 3. I must say that this is one of the reasons I read his blog regularly. He approaches the Bible in ways and with questions that simply don’t occur to me. Sometimes that leaves me wondering why he thinks something matters, more often [...]

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