Genesis

I leave the theme of creation until well into the semester when I teach the...

I had the opportunity to make a guest appearance at one session of this year-long...

Another couple of games with biblical themes came to my attention recently. One is Genesis,...

SPOILERS AHEAD! The episode begins with the Doctor exiting the TARDIS on a frozen landscape...

The above piece by Russian composer Andrei Petrov is but one of many musical works inspired...

I mentioned previously my hope that students would broaden my horizons. That happened during the...

A multi-author effort by some of the 20th century's great composers: Arnold Schoenberg, Nathaniel Shilkret, Aleksander...

In a recent Facebook exchange, I formulated some points that seem to me to have...

What do you think? Do you find this analogy which Daniel Eaton came up with...

This meme came my way via God of Evolution on Facebook, and I have been...

Hemant Mehta shared the image above. What strikes me most is that the change seems...

I expect that I will be using Max Stern's books about Bible and Music and Psalms...

This Bizarro cartoon gets at one of the problems with the idea that Adam and...

I've been asked about the original source of the image above, illustrating how people in...

The above video featuring Rev. Leonard J. Vander Zee offers a very interesting retelling of...

This was a great episode, of the satirical and self-parodying sort that the X-Files regularly...

Hemant Mehta shared the above cartoon. It is always good to ask about things a story doesn't...

The Institute for Creation Research recently shared the above image on Facebook, claiming that Jesus quotes...

The quote comes from p. xxiii of Nahum Sarna's book Understanding Genesis.

The image comes from God of Evolution on Facebook. Obviously young-earth creationists can explain away...

Hector Avalos has a new article in The Bible and Interpretation about the need for Biblical scholars...

I had been meaning to blog about the movie Ex Machina for a while now....

So-called "literal" interpreters of Genesis are often blind to the things they read into the...

I'm delighted to be a participant in the Patheos Book Club about John Walton's latest...

Biblical Studies Online shared the above lecture by David Clines, which is about the variety...

"Genesis of the Daleks" is arguably one of the greatest episodes in Doctor Who history....

 

I became aware today of two talks by John Walton. The first is primarily about...

Ken Brown pointed out that the image I shared misattributed the quotation to the wrong...