The Bible shows our humanity while taking us back to the solitary, deep-water worm of our primordial origins.
How should we relate to figures in the Bible?
What if his brothers didn’t sell him into slavery?
Inserting divine instruction or omitting the story altogether.
Man, but not woman, is described as lonely.
Finding our place in the still-unfolding story.
Or does the highly lauded American author’s new book revive some old prejudices?
“And it was good.”
Reading Joseph through Jacob and Esau.
The argument over Sodom and the meaning of prayer.
The contradictions of Shechem.