One of the real problems of the preaching ministry today is making the principles of the Bible pertinent to a space-conscious era. Yet it is the space-consciousness of our time that has caused many a ...

Meet the LDS couple working to teach kids (and adults) that scripture is more than a stack of doctrines and simple stories of ...

This book is a new edition of a well-known introduction to the Old Testament, written by Larry Boadt and later revised and updated by my teachers, Richard Clifford and Dan Harrington. Paulist Press ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

Recently I attended a meeting of biblical scholars from a variety of academic settings in the United States and Canada to discuss what many perceive as a crisis in biblical studies. Threats to the ...

When Howard Vanderpool was in Bible school, a professor who taught the Old Testament book of Exodus inspired him to learn more about the tabernacle believed to have been built by Israelites about ...

Reading the Old Testament closely reveals how faith has changed not only in belief but in the rules we collectively leave behind. The Bible remains the bestselling book year after year, yet few people ...

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 United ...