For many of us, the most famous giant from the Bible is Goliath. Goliath, who hailed from the city of Gath, was the Philistine fighter who was slain by the young David who would eventually become King ...

In one quote from St. Augustine, he even lists the canon of the Old Testament and it includes the books that are considered ... 135 A.D. "In Genesis it says, `And God tested Abraham and said ...

Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch had the help of 12 other Catholic biblical scholars to gather and compose the commentary on the books of the Old Testament alone.

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner ... according to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... The unnamed narrator is a forty-five-year-old in L.A. with a mellow music-producer husband and a precocious seven-year ...

Exodus recounts God directing Moses, aided by Aaron, to oppose Pharoah and liberate the Israelites from bondage? Very male, ...

By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. In “The Killing Fields ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

If you read enough, you sometimes come across a book that defies description. That’s a decent enough way to start a review of “Old Soul,” the new novel by Susan Barker. Described in ...

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In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...