In one quote from St. Augustine, he even lists the canon of the Old Testament and it includes the books that are considered apocryphal by Protestantism. "Since, therefore, Christ was about to be ...

However, regarding the rest of the Old Testament, various religious traditions ordered the books differently. The Protestant Old Testament shares the same collection of books with the Jewish Bible.

In our study of the faith, we can never, ever do away with the Old Testament. In studying the New Testament we must remember the words of the catechism, “...the books of the Old Testament bear ...

The Old Testament includes numerous prophecies about the Messiah. The fascinating thing is that many of these prophecies were fulfilled, and we can find evidence of this in several books of the ...

For more on Joshua’s faith and leadership, see Volume 89. Then, recently in 249, we discussed Joshua’s most famous verse: “As ...

Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred books they shared with Jews. As for the New Testament, its current twenty-seven book form derives from the fourth century CE ...

Join us for the next year as we make our way through the Old Testament. Despite the Second Vatican Council’s promotion of Scripture reading, many Catholics are still not as familiar with the ...

The Old Testament also contains examples of: The Christian faith regards the Bible as the Word of God. This means that the authors of the Bible were inspired by God to write down what they ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Why and how is the Old Testament figure of the Queen Mother a type or model of Our Lady? A: Comparing the queen mother tradition, as it existed in Israel to ...

Modern books are generally written by one author continuously ... My favorite example is an episode of the old TV series, Family Affair. There’s an episode where Buffy asks Uncle Bill ...