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 ...

In Claiming Her Dignity: Fe­male Resistance in the Old Testament (Liturgical Press), L. Juliana Claassens goes be­yond earlier books on women in the Bible by addressing gender issues in our current ...

The Preacher’s remark that “of the making of many books there is no end” comes readily to mind when anyone attempts a survey of this sort. The current revival of religious interest in the ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews, Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament.

Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

It suggests some of the scrolls were one or two centuries older than originally thought, including Old Testament books like Ecclesiastes.

The Old Testament also provides the first reference to “the New Jerusalem” which is so central to all this literalist teaching. In the Book of Ezekiel, his prophetic vision sees a new city centered ...

The sacred books that make up the anthology modern scholars call the Hebrew Bible - and Christians call the Old Testament - developed over roughly a millennium; the oldest texts appear to come ...

New Testament answers to the human predicament have their roots in the theological concepts and religious experience of Old Testament believers and writers.