When analyzing the oldest books of the Bible, scholars have identified the work of various writers and editors. But how did ...

One of the real problems of the preaching ministry today is making the principles of the Bible pertinent to a space-conscious era. Yet it is the space-consciousness of our time that has caused many a ...

This book is a new edition of a well-known introduction to the Old Testament, written by Larry Boadt and later revised and updated by my teachers, Richard Clifford and Dan Harrington. Paulist Press ...

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 ...

Recently I attended a meeting of biblical scholars from a variety of academic settings in the United States and Canada to discuss what many perceive as a crisis in biblical studies. Threats to the ...

Let’s remember that the scripture that was used when Jesus roamed the earth during the last century B.C. (Before Christ) or as atheists like to designate time B.C.E (before the Common Era) was called ...

When Howard Vanderpool was in Bible school, a professor who taught the Old Testament book of Exodus inspired him to learn more about the tabernacle believed to have been built by Israelites about ...

‘When you see the Old Testament through New Testament lenses you will have a much richer understanding of the entirety of Scripture, its cohesiveness and divine unity,” David Limbaugh tells me in ...

In both Calvinist and Catholic theology, God’s “elect” are often understood to be the people that God has chosen to be saved on the last day. Recently, we looked at individual places and people God ...

The Preacher’s remark that “of the making of many books there is no end” comes readily to mind when anyone attempts a survey of this sort. The current revival of religious interest in the United ...