{"id":1254,"date":"2011-09-13T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2011-09-22T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T21:23:06","slug":"six-quotes-zank-on-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/13\/six-quotes-zank-on-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes: Zank on Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>\u201cGenesis starts with \u2018In the beginning\u2019; and that is always a great place to start.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Bible\u2019s stories, laws, and beliefs decisively influenced the western imagination; biblical heroes became models for kings and commoners, and taught westerners how to act, what to pursue, how to govern and rule.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Bible has been many a person\u2019s favorite book\u2014the text one might bring along to a solitary island, or if one wanted something to read in jail.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe are still coming to terms with this dwarfing of a text that, until not too long ago, was a towering monument of the ancient world; so towering, in fact, that it was believed to reach all the way to heaven.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat does God do on the seventh day? He rests. Good for Him.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s like the story of Pandora\u2019s Box. If you put women in the mix everything goes wrong: labor, childbirth, gender relations, and so on. Everything goes wrong.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/bios\/zank\/\">Prof. Michael Zank<\/a>&#8216;s introduction to the book of Genesis this morning in CC101.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGenesis starts with \u2018In the beginning\u2019; and that is always a great place to start.\u201d \u201cThe Bible\u2019s stories, laws, and beliefs decisively influenced the western imagination; biblical heroes became models for kings and commoners, and taught westerners how to act, what to pursue, how to govern and rule.\u201d \u201cThe Bible has been many a person\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860,4854],"tags":[2252,3689,5775,194,48741,6683,6607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}