Artist	Song
Bruce Springsteen	Adam Raised A Cain (1978) [Genesis 4]
Spyro Gyra	Tower Of Babel (1990) [Genesis 11]
Therion	The Rise of Sodom and Gomorrah (1998) [Genesis 19]
Dolly Parton	Coat of Many Colors (1971) [Genesis 37]
Bob Marley	Exodus (1977) [Exodus 15]
Grateful Dead	Samson and Delilah (1977) [cover of Rev. Gary Davis] [Judges 16]
Pixies	Dead (1989) [2 Samuel 11]
Sublime	Rivers of Babylon (1998) [cover of Melodians] [Psalm 137]
Byrds	Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965) [Ecclesiastes 3]
Kate Bush	The Song of Solomon (1993) [Song of Songs 2]
Messenger Project	My Inheritance (1998) [Jeremiah 12]
Emmylou Harris	Wayfaring Stranger (1980) [Jeremiah 14]
Samuel L Jackson [as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction]	Ezekiel (1994) [Ezekiel 25]
Louis Armstrong	Shadrack (1938) [Daniel 3]
Simon Estes [as Sportin Life in Porgy and Bess]	It Ain't Necessarily So (1984) [Jonah 2]
U2	Salome (1992) [Mark 6]
Modest Mouse	Jesus Christ Was an Only Child (1997) [Luke 3]
Rolling Stones	Prodigal Son (1968) [cover of Robert Wilkins] [Luke 15]
Nirvana	Lake of Fire (1994) [cover of Meat Puppets] [Revelation 20]

Comment:

These are songs that take their theme,
and maybe even a few lines of their text, from the Bible.
The sources are cited in case anybody is curious about
the original.

While you are at it, check out the excellent mixes by
cassiopea
and
Bob
and
Vixen.

And here is a thought for the holidays: "And the
dead were judged out of those things which were
written in the books... and they were judged every man
according to their works... And whosoever was not found written
in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

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