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 ...

"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). This passage comes from the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Genesis includes, among ...

Every summer, Brandeis University becomes a vibrant hub for pluralistic Jewish learning through Genesis, a three-week precollege program that brings together high school students from across the globe ...

"But Joseph said to them, ‘Fear not, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they ...

This week we are starting the Torah all over again with Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8), and I’m taking advantage of the new Jewish year to restart my Torah Talk column. You know, of course, that ...

The State Board of Education is moving forward with a plan to allow the use of textbooks that include stories from the Bible.

Unperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims. In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne ...