The New Testament passage the tattoo likely refers to reads: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

Jewish aversion to the New Testament is rooted in both religious law and historical experience. Some passages in early rabbinic literature bar Jews from reading the Gospels, Cook said.

The Christian and the Jewish readings of the Hebrew Bible are both driven by forces external to the actual text. For Christians, the writings of Paul, part of the New Testament, are one such major ...

In Hebrew, it would properly be rendered אל הפיליפים — meaning, “To the Philippians.” Philippians was not written in Hebrew, but Greek, like much of the New Testament.

Finding a way to read the New Testament that actively values the Hebrew Bible, that does not assume theologies like supersessionism (where the Jewish people have been rejected by God and replaced ...

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

The New Testament’s Answers The New Testament comes out of a wholly different milieu. First, it is part and parcel of the broad changes in religious thought that we know as “Hellenization.” ...

If, before reading this study, you were unfamiliar with “haughty eyes” or the word “haughty,” it appears with warnings in Old Testament verses, such as 2 Samuel 22:28, Psalm 101:5 ...

“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

The New Testament includes three passages that explicitly refer to “households” being baptized: “She was baptized, with her household” (Acts 16:15) ...