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Short answer: the good stuff. In The Preservationist (St. Martin's; 230 pages), first-time novelist David Maine picks on Noah again, and with good reason. The story of Noah, crowded with incident though it is, gets just four brief chapters in Genesis, and Maine has a terrific time romping...
Cosby was ahead of his time. There's a bit of a boom in biblical fiction these days: Jacob's four wives got the novelistic treatment in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and this spring brought us Rebecca Kohn's The Gilded Chamber, starring Esther, and Marek Halter's...
Of course, Noe has the toughest job, as both servant of an enigmatic, irascible deity and sitcom father to that feuding brood. Maine treats him irreverently, but if he knocks the patriarch down a peg, it's only so that we can re-encounter the hoary Old Testament icon afresh...
The contest, which seeks essays on topics relating to the parallels between the two religions, offers questions in three general areas—faith and Bible, history, and current events. Goldhirsh founded the contest in conjuction with her new initiative, Reaching Common Ground.
And that pesky language problem got solved. Instead of "father," McKenzie says, her flock began describing her as "the mother who holds the sharp end of the knife," a reference to the Bible's Solomon-and-the-disputed-baby story, in which the child's authentic mother elects to give...