Genesis, the Movie.Genesis, the Movie. By Robert Farrar Capon Robert Farrar Capon (born 1925) is an American Episcopal priest and author. A life-long New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York. (Eerdmans, $28). C. writes a commentary on Genesis 1-3 by "watching" the Bible as a historical movie whose director is God. He thus attempts to get beyond the battles over historicity by comparing the readers' experience to that of the viewers of movies. Each section of the commentary begins with a printout of the Hebrew, Septuagint, Vulgate Vulgate (vŭl`gāt) [Lat. Vulgata editio=common edition], most ancient extant version of the whole Christian Bible. Its name derives from a 13th-century reference to it as the "editio vulgata. , KJV, RSV RSV respiratory syncytial virus; Rous sarcoma virus. RSV abbr. respiratory syncytial virus RSV 1 Respiratory syncytial virus, see there 2 Rous sarcoma virus, see there , and NRSV, that sort of blunts the movie metaphor for me, as do the frequent, long Hebrew, Greek, and Latin citations. C. draws on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich or Juliana of Norwich (born 1342, probably Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.—died after 1416) English mystic. After being healed of a serious illness (1373), she wrote two accounts of her visions; her Revelations of Divine Love is remarkable for and from a host of modern poets and adds his usual spunky comments. RWK |
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