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José Ignacio Fletes Cruz’s The Second Chance: The Ark of Noah
art selection and comment by John Kohan
Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent
Precision and beauty have kissed.
by Judy Klitsner
The anguish and ecstasy of the ark’s matriarch
Sarah Blake’s surrealist novel about Naamah—Noah’s wife—is mesmerizing.
by Amy Peterson
Two new (very different) Old Testament translations
Is it man or humanity? Ark or chest?
by James C. Howell
4 Bible storybooks that leave space for children’s imagination
In God's kingdom, sometimes less is more.
by Emily Zimbrick-Rogers
Here in Minnesota, Lent is an almost unbearably slow wait.
by Debbie Blue
For the people in Noah’s day, there was no scientific warning of a natural disaster, just a crazy man building an ark.