the Quran proposes the unprecedented notion that all revealed scriptures are derived from a single concealed book in heaven called the Umm al-Kitab, or “Mother of Books” (13:39).

If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we’d ever get past the first chapter. The claims that Genesis 1 makes about who and what we are as human beings are so potent, so stirring, so breathtaking, and ultimately so demanding that we can’t just read it and move on. The chapter demands nothing less than a radical reorientation of our lives

By the end of the first century CE, these three parts—the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings—had become the Bible of ancient Judaism, its “sacred scriptures,” that is, writings believed to be divinely inspired and thus having a special authority. For Jews today, they are simply the Bible. Modern scholars often use the term Hebrew Bible to distin

Genesis 1-3 is…

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