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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...