The Book of Genesis (comics) was brought up Catholic, and thus is familiar with the more common Bible stories, but gave up the Catholic faith when he was 16. He went through a phase when he was 15 where he "[went] to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying", but when he started to scrutinize it, "it just fell apart so quickly." Crumb says he is spiritual, gnostic, and not an atheist; he is "interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things." He believes there is a God, but "I don't believe [the Book of Genesis is] the Word of God.
The Story of the Jews (book) The Story of the Jews (book) The Story of the Jews is a book by British historian Simon Schama, which is being published in three volumes. The first volume, entitled "Finding the Words 1000BCE – 1492CE", was published in the United Kingdom by Bodley Head in September 2013. The second volume, entitled "Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900", was published by Bodley Head in October 2017. A television series, based on Schama's book, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in September 2013 and in the United States on PBS in March and April 2014. In his