early Christians believed that the Hebrew Bible was God's book, and therefore a book that should cast light on current events and moral conundrums. For Christians, of course, the most important ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke tells the story without ...

If the West is going to survive as a semi-concrete entity and not either be subsumed into an amorphous global neoliberal blob ...

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...

Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as effective ... The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and ...

But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words ... What really matters is that Abraham is seen later by Jews and Christians as the father of the faithful.

The great promise of the Manicheans proved illusory, but the problem remained unresolved for all that. Augustine was unable to convert to the Christianity of the Catholic Church until he had ...

(JTA) — A new Bible translation that eschews gendered pronouns for God is now available through Sefaria, the online library of Jewish texts, prompting backlash on social media from some who see ...

The Hebrew Bible's moral language and stories of God's promises redeemed have provided a shared point of reference for all of American history. But if we continue to lose that shared language, polariz ...

A gender studies professor in Virginia whose latest work focuses on rape and sexual assault in the Scriptures is leading a ...