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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 ...
Archaeologists recently unearthed a 1,000-year-old Viking treasure hoard on Baltic shores, featuring silver artifacts, Arabic ...
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 otherwise excellent Nov. 30 Metro obituary for Phillip Ratner, “Sculptor cast the immigrant experience in bronze,” twice referred to “the Old Testament.”That is a Christian term used ...
Some Christian nationalists are singing the praises of an Old Testament punishment. Adobe Stock The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling ...
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 ...
One of the foundations of the Christian faith instructs us to love our neighbors. However, many Christians in America are ...
From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God ... Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997).
The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the Old Testament includes writings considered apocryphal by ...