Seeing Jesus as the culmination of the Old Testament story tells us something important about that portion of the Bible. It tells us that the Old Testament really is Christians’ book. In fact, it is ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

The Jewish New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine in The Misunderstood Jew: The Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (Harper, 2007) also affirms the validity of “Old Testament” on the grounds that the ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

Hanukkah is the Jewish holiday that was saved by Christians. ... The eight-day holiday of Hanukkah being celebrated this week is not in the Jewish Old Testament and barely mentioned in the Talmud.

Brettler became involved with the "New Oxford Annotated Bible" 15 years ago. The editors drew him in because they were "concerned that some of their previous annotations were anti-Jewish," he said, ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in front of the Tomb of the Patriarch, where Old Testament prophet Abraham and his son Isaac are thought to be buried.