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Article: Universal story PBS series explores book of key themes, `Genesis'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1996
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If there really are only seven great plots in human experience,
Genesis has all of them.
Bill Moyers' television series "Genesis a Living Conversation"
has great material.
So far the series has spawned two new Genesis translations,
several commentaries, Time and Newsweek articles, and scattered
Internet chatter. Consider that an amplified version of ongoing
discussions among the 3 billion Christians, Muslims and Jews around
the world who count themselves as children of Abraham.
So far this school year, Mishy Pittleman's enthusiastic
kindergarteners at Hillel Academy, 6401 N. Santa Monica Blvd.,
Whitefish Bay, have drawn Adam and Eve in the Garden, built Noah's
ark and filled it with ...