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 ...

Bradley Holt, in his book Thirsty for God, clarifies that, ... my first experiences of having my spirituality—not just my theology—shaped by the Old Testament. But that wasn’t all.

THE BOOK OF ALL BOOKS By Roberto Calasso Translated by Tim Parks “The Book of All Books” is one of the last in a series of studies of myth by Roberto Calasso, who died in Milan this past July ...

Boyd omits all of this because he treats these books and the Old Testament at large as an almost unrelenting train of horrors—a massacre of babes, as in the woman’s summary. Besides the fact that this ...

I t’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 ...

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 ...

Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews, Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament. [A&W, p.33] ...

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 ...

They are a traditional unit in their own right; Hebrew designations of what Christians call the “Old Testament” are basically in three sections, the Torah or Law, the Writings and the Prophets.

Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

Biblical scholar and New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh on Monday released his latest eye-popping analysis of the Holy Book and concludes that the Old Testament is the introduction ...