2) figurative / symbolic / allegorical interpretation. 3) a mixture of both. Does either the Bible or Catholicism require, for example, the serpent in Genesis to be taken absolutely literally in all ...

This is the seventh and final post in a series on "Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators." My coauthor for this project is the excellent Hebrew scholar John ...

June is the time to celebrate the festive Noahic Covenant Month—or so I’m told by legions of Christians on social media who want to “take back the rainbow” from LGBTQ people like me. “The rainbow ...

The Genesis 11 story is about pride, but not in the way we think. In this Close Reading series, biblical scholars reflect on a passage in their area of expertise that has been formational in their own ...

How the great theologian might weigh in on the Darwin debate. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th of the publication of his On the Origin of Species. For some ...

Few Biblical scholars would have made R. Crumb–the counterculture cartoonist famous for creating Fritz the Cat–their top choice for reinterpreting the first book of the Pentateuch. And few among Crumb ...

As fewer Americans read the Bible literally, Adam and Eve is increasingly functioning less as a fixed doctrine and more as a ...

This is the seventh and final post in a series on “Genesis 1–11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators.” My coauthor for this project is the excellent Hebrew scholar John ...