Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first part covers the Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood and the Tower of Babel and establishes the basic premise of a God who acts in the history of his most problematic creation. The last three-quarters of Genesis, by contrast, is the wild and woolly saga of one family more widely perceived as historical. Exhorting Abraham to leave his father's house and country, God offers him incalculable descendants and property. Abraham accepts, and the rest of Genesis describes his triumphs and travails and those of his son Isaac, grandson Jacob and great grandson Joseph...
...found himself sitting in his apartment at 3 a.m., having just read Genesis straight through "as if I were discovering it for the first time." The stories spoke to difficulties with his father and to his feelings after the death of a brother; he became caught up in the saga of "heroes tinged with moral ambiguity and fallenness, yet through them some larger purposes unfolded of which they were not aware." Moyers decided that night that "I've got to do this." As television, he meant...
...fact, for millions of Americans, many of the issues raised in Genesis: A Living Conversation will be no issues at all. Fundamentalists, Evangelicals and Orthodox Jews are well aware of the moral flaws of the book's human characters. But since they regard the entire book as the saga of God putting humanity on trial rather than the reverse, these imperfections will not challenge faith. Nor would they have perturbed the work's original audience, maintains Southern Baptist professor Kenneth Mathews, an Old Testament scholar at Alabama's Samford University who has just published his own commentary, Genesis...
What can fairly be called the Fagles phenomenon forms an intriguing new chapter in the long saga of efforts to knead Homeric Greek into suitable English. The first translator with access to the Greek texts and the gumption to try his hand at them was George Chapman (circa 1560-1634), whose complete version of the Iliad in English appeared in 1611, the same year that saw the release of the King James Version of the Old and New Testaments...
...upon bloodstains on the baby's jumpsuit, expert witnesses concluded Chamberlain had cut her child's throat with scissors. Vilified by the press, she was convicted of murder, her husband named an accessory. In 1986 the child's jacket was found, providing evidence that led to their exoneration. Their saga was turned into the 1988 movie A Cry in the Dark, with Meryl Streep playing Chamberlain. She divorced her husband, and is now married to American Rick Creighton. The couple run a publishing company specializing in health books. Closure eludes her; a coroner's inquiry last year could not provide...