It has often been said that there is little more to the ethics of the Hebrew Scriptures than doing whatever God commands you to do: If you have instruction directly from God himself or from a prophet, ...

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr “As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?” (Mk 12:35) Find ...

JEWS THE world over will gather around the Seder table this week to recount again the great narrative of their ancestors’ redemption from slavery in Egypt. In retelling the story, they will quote the ...

Anton Wessels emphasizes points of convergence among the Abrahamic religions, even assimilating their scriptural perspectives into a single story. It's an audacious wager, and not without dangers. In ...

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings ...

He found ‘awesome reality of a living God’ in the grammar and syntax of Hebrew Scripture. Francis I. Andersen, an Australian scholar who spent more than 35 years analyzing the syntax of the Hebrew ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...