"Christian Instruction" c. 397 A.D. "We read in the books of the Maccabees (2 Maccabees 12:43) that sacrifice was offered for the dead. But even if it were found nowhere in the Old Testament ...

For more on Joshua’s faith and leadership, see Volume 89. Then, recently in 249, we discussed Joshua’s most famous verse: “As ...

Yet in every case, as far as we can tell, the Christian reading comes after ... Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred books they shared with Jews.

Thus, an argument can be made that the Septuagint should more properly be considered the “original” Christian Old Testament. Third, because the New Testament was written in Greek, it refers to ...

That is likely doubly true when it comes to the Old Testament. In this series ... change of perspective that comes from the Judaeo-Christian tradition: there is a beginning.

A preliminary creed was penned to spell out the orthodox belief, which was then refined at the Council of Constantinople in ...

The Old Testament contains a record of the pact between ... Besides denoting the Jewish and Christian religions, the terms "Old" and "New" Testaments also designate the sacred books of each.

So, I wondered if there is a connection between the two verses besides both being recorded in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament ... Jewish and Christian leaders have prayed this “Priestly ...