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February 2017

February 23, 2017

Josephslegende

I was delighted to find this neglected contribution by Richard Strauss to the musical treatments of...

February 22, 2017

Andrei Petrov, Creation of the World Suite

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

February 21, 2017

The Bible in Arnold Schoenberg’s Music

The entirety of Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron" is on YouTube (just the music, not a...

February 16, 2017

The Hippopotamus Song

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

February 07, 2017

Creation and Creativity

Coming up on February 22nd is an exhibit and performance connected with the seminar on religion,...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

“Sarah” by Elizabeth Swados

January 23, 2017

Genesis Suite

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

January 12, 2017

The Bible as Tree of Knowledge

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

October 2016

October 20, 2016

Made in the Image of God

This might actually be the best argument against understanding the creation of humans in the...

October 16, 2016

But where is the lamb?

I thought it would be appropriate to mention here the compositions of Gabrielle Cerberville, a...

October 02, 2016

Genesis as Ink Blot

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

September 2016

September 03, 2016

Noah Was the Original PokéMaster

Via Hemant Mehta. Even he could appreciate the humor.

August 2016

August 09, 2016

Once Upon a Time in the Beginning

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

July 2016

July 23, 2016

Jacob and the Angel for Piano and Orchestra

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

July 02, 2016

Death Before The Fall

Ronald Osborn's book Death Before the Fall is one that I put off reading for...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Ancient Israelite Cosmology Video

I've shared images of the ancient Israelite view of the universe before. But above is...

June 23, 2016

Ancient Israelite Cosmology Video

I've shared images of the ancient Israelite view of the universe before. But above is...

June 19, 2016

Father’s Day Akedah

A cartoon by Tim Davis. Yet another attempt to make sense of this disturbing story...

June 01, 2016

Never Children

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

March 2016

March 24, 2016

What is the Genesis of this Image?

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

March 16, 2016

The Genre of Genesis 3

The quote in the image above is from a conversation I had recently on Facebook....

February 2016

February 22, 2016

Swing By and Pick Up the Llamas

Yesterday's Bizarro comic highlighted the absurdity of the Noah's ark story when taken literally. One...

February 15, 2016

The Big Story

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

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Making the World a Better Place

This New Yorker cartoon came to my attention via Hemant Mehta on Facebook. It often strikes...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Ridiculously Complicated

Presumably there is a logical explanation for this, although it is one that is often overlooked...

September 17, 2015

The Other Arks

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

September 12, 2015

When God Closes a Door

When I saw this quip that Phillip shared on Facebook, I immediately thought that it deserved...

September 03, 2015

Proof Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Care What the Bible Says

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

August 2015

August 17, 2015

The Tower of Bible

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved southward, they found papyrus in...

August 04, 2015

Literalism = Misconception and Incoherence

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

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