Last year John F. Hobbins and I published Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators. Readers of the Volokh Conspiracy may remember the seven-part series I did on the ...

I’ve got sort of a followup question to the one somebody asked you about Abraham in a recent NCR article of yours. It’s about how to read Genesis 1-11. I’ve heard that Catholics tend to read those ...

This is the seventh and final post in a series on “Genesis 1–11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators.” My coauthor for this project is the excellent Hebrew scholar John ...

Professor Samuel Bray and Reverend John Hobbins have recently published a new translation of Genesis 1-11, appropriately titled Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and ...

This is the second in a series of posts about “Genesis 1–11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators” (available from the publisher and from Amazon). In my last post, I mentioned ...

Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

Presenter: Richard J. Clifford, S.J. To many people today, the opening chapters of Genesis—the seven-day creation account and the stories about Adam and Eve and the flood—are merely entertaining. To ...

A two-day workshop at Hope College on Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, will focus on reading Genesis 1-11 for insights from the biblical thought-world that can provide guidance through today’s ...

The philosopher and theologian ventures a new hypothesis on Genesis, human origins, and the historical Adam. As head of the ministry Reasonable Faith and a prolific writer on topics of philosophy and ...

Presenter: Richard J. Clifford, S.J. To many people today, the opening chapters of Genesis—the seven-day creation account and the stories about Adam and Eve and the flood—are merely entertaining. To ...