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In Liana Finck’s Book of Genesis, Lilith is the Serpent, Joseph wears a merman tail and God is a woman. The New Yorker cartoonist’s latest graphic novel, “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation,” envisages the Almighty as a work in progress.
"Let There Be Light" by Liana Finck, based on Genesis, follows a female God creating life and dealing with Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Joseph.
Whatever moral authority my father still possessed, after all I’d seen and heard, was destroyed and swept away.
He was a poet of love, of war, of citizenry, of history – all at the same time.
Popular among charismatics, the “heart-level” Bible version was criticized as a paraphrase posing as translation.