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 ...

Many of these books mentioned above are known as the Apocrypha or what is also known as the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. Books like Enoch, Jubilees, 3 Ezra and 4 Ezra can be found ...

There are numerous versions of Christians’ Bibles. The Catholics’ Bible, put into its present form in the fourth century, contains several Old Testament books not in Protestants’ Bibles, and ...

Chosen by Andrew Abernethy, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, coeditor of “The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness,” and author of “Savoring Scripture: A Six-Step Guide to ...

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible, from academic publisher Routledge Press, proposes a provocative new theory regarding when, where and why the Old Testament was written. According to the ...

People of the Covenant: An Invitation to the Old Testament Dianne Bergant, CSA. Sheed & Ward, $16.95 (216pp) ISBN 978-1-58051-090-5 ...

The Old Testament is actually full of examples of God’s mercy and love. Exodus 34:6, for example, speaks of God’s compassion, love, and faithfulness. ... In the book of Exodus, ...