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 ...

Old Testament criticism of the kind just mentioned is by no means a facile matter, however. It demands long hours of study involving original languages, obscure religions, and apparently ...

The Old Testament considers children an evidence of God’s blessing: “And God blessed them, and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have ...

The otherwise excellent Nov. 30 Metro obituary for Phillip Ratner, “Sculptor cast the immigrant experience in bronze,” twice referred to “the Old Testament.”That is a Christian term used ...

Some Christian nationalists are singing the praises of an Old Testament punishment. Adobe Stock The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling ...

The oldest known near-complete Hebrew Bible was presented to the press on Wednesday in Tel Aviv, where it will be displayed for a week before going under the hammer in New York.The Codex Sassoon is ...