Divine Notions

People and god; gods and nations; the danger and potential inherent therein

Saint Teresa of Avila, John Singer Sargent, 19th century

Ancient scripture famously says humans are made in god’s image. There are two accounts of this idea, and of creation itself, in the book we know today as Genesis, which was originally just a scroll, part of a collection of texts meant to tell the Israelite nation’s origin story. That story included…