Song-Mi Suzie Park is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Focusing on literary readings and interpretations of the Bible, with a particular interest in issues of identity and gender, she is the author of Hezekiah and the Dialogue of Memory and 2 Kings in the Wisdom Commentary Series and coauthor with Carolyn B. Helsel of The Flawed Family of God: Stories about the Imperfect Families in Genesis, as well as several articles and essays.
The best stories in the book of Genesis involve families. The issues these stories raise—married vs. single life, sibling rivalry, infertility, family relocation, blended families, and the like—are startlingly relevant to families of today. This Bib...
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Jews and Christians both insist that love stands at the heart of who God is. Yet when we talk about love in the Hebrew Bible, how much do we really know? Are we aware of how often divine and human love are tied up with the idea of preference for one...