3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Text Sparks Fresh Debate Over Biblical Giants ...

Pew Research reveals a paradox: while interest in Christianity may be rising, only 22% of Americans read the Bible weekly and 61% rarely or never read it, often stumped by its unfamiliar genealogies ...

In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

The scrolls newly discovered are written entirely in Greek except for God’s name, which is represented in Hebrew as the tetragrammaton (YHWH). Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. (photo: Tamarah via ...

The Old Testament has been revarnished a bit, the Jewish names exchanged for one hundred per cent Teutonic ones and the Jewish Scriptures can now be read by even a Bavarian anti-Semite without danger ...

"You shall utterly destroy them." "Leave alive nothing that breathes." These violent texts of the Old Testament may seem shocking and even morally offensive to our "civilized" ears. So how can we ...

In a commentary for NCR, St. Joseph Sr. Christine Schenk says that on the 50th anniversary of Vatican II lectionary, it's time to update texts and translations. "The rich Biblical resources about the ...

In theory, I am committed to preaching the Old Testament. I generally feel exercised about how little the Old Testament is proclaimed in churches, how rarely it is preached, how many Christians act as ...