Due to its favoring of the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Roman Catholic Church maintains close ties to both the ancient Hebrew and Old Greek texts of the Old Testament. Jerome, the celebrated 4th ...

Literally in Hebrew this means you will ... we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column, we will explore Christ’s teaching in the New Testament.

The first is called the liturgy of the Word and the second the Eucharistic liturgy. In the first part a passage from the ...

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 ...

The volume introduces readers to the three main sections of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and to the biblical books found in each. It is organized around two primary “stories”: the story that scholars ...

In our church on a typical Sunday, we read lessons from the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in most churches), the New Testament, and one of the Gospels. I ...

Brent A. Strawn, Ph.D., professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School and professor of Law at Duke University, has co-edited a volume of 36 essays offering resources for the essential ...

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ... The Canonization of Hebrew Scripture. (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1976). Levenson, Jon. Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible. (San Francisco: HarperSan ...