In her 2009 monograph on cognitive linguistics for Biblical Studies Ellen Van Wolde argues that the verb אדב means "to separate" rather than the traditional understanding "to create." This ...

The origin of the world is laid out in the biblical Book of Genesis. And so it unfolds with the other Genesis — South Korea's upstart luxury brand. Genesis has its own book of Genesis — literally.

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Traditionally, there have been three different views since the earliest time on this issue; a) sons of God were sons of princes, b) they were the fallen angels, and c) they were the godly men from the ...

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 ...

The battle for 16-bit supremacy is the subject of Blake J. Harris' Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation (It Books, 576 pages, $28.99). Harris speaks this weekend at ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford on the Turn It On Again tour in Hamburg. 1.4 million fans attended the 22 European concerts Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks talk to Marc Lee about ...