It’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

Invariably, they conclude that the historical-critically derived “original meaning” does not lend itself to its later New Testament (or other Christian) usage, absent both hindsight and an a priori ...

The Old Testament serves as more than mere background to the New, but is a constant reference point for the theology and narrative emerging in the Christian Scriptures. The entire canon is unified by ...

Brent Strawn was teaching at a Methodist church in Atlanta when he asked his class to identify the origin of Jesus' well-known cry from the cross - "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ...

A Liturgy of Grief: A Pastoral Com­mentary on Lamen­tations, by Leslie C. Allen (Baker, 208 pp., $21.99 paperback). Sensitive to detail and nuance both in the poetry lamenting Jeru­salem’s destruction ...

Some Christian leaders are asserting their support of the death penalty using scriptures from the Old Testament. ... the Old Testament prescribes death for anyone who commits pre-meditated murder.

The Old Testament considers children an evidence of God’s blessing: “And God blessed them, and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have ...

“The Old Testament has often had a more insecure place with the Christian tradition,” said Stephen Chapman, professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School.

In this dual presentation, Richard J. Clifford, S.J., discusses liberation, covenant, and blessings in the Old Testament, specifically exploring origin. Michael Simone, S.J., responds by highlighting ...