“It goes back to the first book, Genesis.” He highlighted the relevant portion of the Bible as stating “Male and female He made them.” The measure, which received all but two of its votes ...

Alter is the first person to complete ... because I had just written a book that involved Kafka.” Maybe something from the Bible, Alter said offhand. Genesis, perhaps. “But the problem is ...

Life had weathered him. In 1948, on the heels of WWII, Winston Churchill famously said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The Bible contains many such men who didn’t ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and ... The five books of Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy ...

Moreover, the Genesis passage is only 56 words long ... Fast forward approximately another 1000 years to the New Testament’s book of Hebrews. There, Melchizedek and Jesus, who is called ...