The fourth book of Moses is called Numbers in the English Bible, and this follows the usage of the Greek Septuagint translation. In the Hebrew it is called Bammidhbar (“In the wilderness”). The former ...

No one can accuse Joshua Cohen of being short on chutzpah. His new novel, "Book of Numbers," borrows its title from the Bible, and his creation myth about the birth of the Internet age aims to be as ...

Genesis-to-Revelation plans are popular, but most Christians will grow closer to God and his Word at a slower pace.

FROM the opening sentence of this book – “If you’re reading this on a screen, f**k off” – I so desperately wanted to love it. It is one of those “maximalist” American novels, similar to Adam Levin’s ...

Describing what Joshua Cohen's sprawling, comic, tragic new novel is actually about isn't easy. In fact, it's tempting to use the old joke: It's about 600 pages. But Cohen gets there first; he does ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In 1999, the year of The Matrix, a documentary was made about William Gibson, cult novelist and inventor ...

From a talking donkey to a man being eaten by a giant fish, the Bible has no shortage of strange stories. In her new book "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford ...

Since I am curious about new versions of the Bible, I picked up a copy of The Books of the Bible, an edition without section headings or chapter and verse divisions. Simply the plain text, in the NIV ...