Dale A. Brueggemann

Enoch, in Figures de la Bible , by Gerard Hoet (1648–1733) Genesis five sounds almost like a restart of the human story. It echoes the n...

Cain came as a godsend. Eve's jubilation reminds us of Adam's reception of his bride (Gen 4:1, cf. Gen 2:23).[1] She probably though...

Louis XIV. presenting his sceptre and helmet to Jesus Christ, by Charles Le Brun, 1674 Thank God, the Bible story doesn't end just ou...

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553 When God came into the garden after the first human sin, they tried to hide from him (Gen 3:8). But h...

Genesis three opens with a demonic dialogue over God's word (Gen 3:1-5). Both the serpent and the woman distorted and denied God's ...

Noon: Rest From Work (After Millet)   1889-90; Musée d'Orsay, Paris Augustine, a medieval theologian from North Africa, exclaimed, ...

For God's title, the Old Testament, regularly uses the plural noun 'Elohim instead of 'Eloah , the singular form. With singular...