Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...
The Protestant Old Testament shares the same collection of books with the Jewish Bible. The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, however, include additional books that came to be called the ...
When I encounter the word “resurrection,” my mind goes immediately to the three long days and nights our Savior lay bound in death in a cold, dark and borrowed tomb.
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill launches his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, starting from the ...
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...
If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. Revelation 22: ...
Award-winning actor Tim Allen has shared more about his Bible reading journey, revealing he recently read through and re-read the Old Testament and has started on the New Testament — an ...
A period of forty years separates the death of Jesus from the writing of the first gospel. History offers us little direct evidence about the events of this period, but it does suggest that the ...
In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses ...