(Courtesy Dietrich Raue and Aiman Ashmawy/The Heliopolis Project) As geographical guides, creation myths can be unhelpfully vague. Christians, Jews, and Muslims have long searched in vain for the ...

Reference is made in the 29th verse of the 11th chapter of Romans to Jacob. We give the above illustration of a threshing scene at Heliopolis, because it was in this region that Jacob lived during the ...