O.K. I’m offering “How to read the Old Testament,” and you might very well be thinking, “Why would I want to read the Old ...

More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week. From Thursday, sections of the Codex ...

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 ...

Pastors and scholars can now explore cross-references throughout the Old Testament. The book is titled Old Testament Use of Old Testament: A Book-by-Book Guide by Gary Edward Schnittjer. Weighing in ...

When the difficulties and uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic were at their height in Italy this past spring, one Vatican cardinal defined the snowballing crisis as a form of "trauma." When ...

The Hebrew Scriptures place internal struggles on full display—and teach us a lot about spiritual practice. I had quiet times before I knew they were a requirement for Christian living, and during ...

"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler of Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, of ancient ...