It is organized around two primary “stories”: the story that scholars tell about the Old Testament and the story the literature itself tells. Concluding with a reconsideration of the Old Testament as ...

The "Ancient Hebrew Scriptures," often called the Old Testament, embrace a world view which was both deeply imbedded in its historical context (the civilization of the Ancient Near East) and at the ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has the largest Old Testament collection of any tradition, having 46 books in total compared to the 39 of the Hebrew Bible. Photograph of a Torah reading, by Jay ...

There is, I think, a word for retelling Biblical stories without nuance ... Bard’s brilliance is to read his plays as a 14-year-old. Testament is the equivalent of showing a rambunctious ...

Millions of Christians see the Bible as God's story of creation, redemption, and God's final judgment of the living and the dead. It includes the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath ...