The Bible in the News: Of Biblical Proportions

In a column published in fall 2004,a I discovered that excessive rain and other manifestations of nature-produced pain were the most common occurrences that writers in the popular press associated with the expression “of Biblical proportions.” Sensing that little if anything remains static, I decided to see what if any changes had occurred in this usage over the intervening years. Always aiming for the cutting edge, I limited my search for the most part to stories appearing in 2015 and the first part of 2016. Although this expression seems (at least to me) of hoary origins, its first usage […]