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For years I have told amazed and disbelieving friends that the exploits Old Testament folks get up to in Genesis (and elsewhere) are far more lurid and diverting than anything on television. The point of Genesis and many of the other colorful, anecdotal tales in the Old Testament is that...
I'm all for his policy of practicing what I believe the literary critics call seasonal coordination. I can imagine A Visit from St. Nicholas given away in December. The Canterbury Tales might be handed out in April--unless April has been the cruelest month that year, in which case...
With nearly a dozen clerics on board, A Living Conversation is hardly an exercise in atheism, debunking or even agnosticism. Rather it is a fascinating collection of approaches, from traditional to avant-garde, jostling around those magnificent, infuriating tales. As one panelist, author Charles Johnson, comments early on, "the problem...
When it was all over and she was back in London, says Armstrong, she was so stimulated by the Genesis stories that she wrote a book. In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (Knopf) is a brief survey of the tales through the prism of Armstrong's strongly held...
The question, of course, is who will buy these books? And who will shun them because of their connection to a show some may see as apostasy? Doug Donaldson, who is selling the videotape of the Moyers shows for educational and home-video markets, says pre-broadcast sales have been...