Season after Pentecost | Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Genesis 6:9-22, 7:24, 8:14-19; Psalm 46; (Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28; Psalm 31:1-5, 19-24;) Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31); Matthew 7:21-29
Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent
Precision and beauty have kissed.
The anguish and ecstasy of the ark’s matriarch
Sarah Blake’s surrealist novel about Naamah—Noah’s wife—is mesmerizing.
Two new (very different) Old Testament translations
Is it man or humanity? Ark or chest?
The Holocaust survivor’s response to suffering was to create joyful children’s books.
4 Bible storybooks that leave space for children’s imagination
In God's kingdom, sometimes less is more.