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 ...

Several new studies consider women’s agency. In Claiming Her Dignity: Fe­male Resistance in the Old Testament (Liturgical Press), L. Juliana Claassens goes be­yond earlier books on women in the Bible ...

The Books of the Old Testament, by Robert H. Pfeiffer (Harper) is an abridgement of his earlier Introduction. In the author’s own words, it “adds nothing, changes no conclusions, and omits ...

Books. The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible. Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text. by George C. Heider in ...

The use of the word “testament” for books was based on texts such as 2 Cor 3:14, “for to this present day the same veil remains unlifted when [the people of Israel] read the old covenant ...

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.

They’re so influential. Jesus and the New Testament writers certainly knew a great deal of them (see Jude 9 and 14–15), and yet those books are mostly unknown today except to a few nonspecialists.

As for lectionaries, heard in many churches each Sunday morning, the Revised Common Lectionary omits seven books of the Old Testament and severely underrepresents 13 others, Strawn writes.

Casey Cep writes about her experience reading the Old Testament during pregnancy, for a course taught by the novelist Marilynne Robinson, noting how Biblical stories about mothers stand out to her ...

David W. Kerr has been Professor of Old Testament at Gordon Divinity School since 1953. He holds the B.A. degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the B.D. and Th.M. degrees from ...