In the beginning
Podmore, Mervyn What is it that has appealed to readers through centuries of reading The Old Testament? Is it epic events, conflict between characters, life-changing drama? We can conjure up pictures of the serpent and God's anger in the garden of Eden, Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed in a ball of fire or trumpets signalling the collapse of the walls of Jericho!
Yet although the pictures in our imagination are spectacular, like those in Children's Bible stories...