Some Protestants still believe that Roman Catholics do not read the Bible and subordinate Holy Scripture to an amorphous thing called “tradition”­revelation which is not found in Scripture but has ...
It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and ...
(RNS) — Few Bible scholars would argue that David, the king of Israel, did anything but sin when he had sex with Bathsheba, the wife of one of his soldiers. But what sin was it? Last week, Rachael ...
(RNS) — Hebrew Bible scholar Marc Zvi Brettler learned years ago that it never hurts to ask. Talking to an acquaintance at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University last year, Brettler, a professor of ...
Feminist Bible scholar Phyllis Trible died earlier this month just short of her 93rd birthday. Her work affected the way generations of people, scholars and non-scholars alike, understand women in the ...
Pro-MAGA Bible scholar Jim Moseley argued that God saved the creation of woman for last because he didn't want to hear her criticize him as he worked.During a Wednesday Real America's Voice segment ...
The Society of Biblical Literature, the largest international body of scholars of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and related texts, hopes to assist experts on the Qur’an in creating an ...
Trends in biblical interpretation come and go, even while the basic text has endured for almost two millennia. New and forthcoming biblical studies books can’t leave the apostle Paul alone, continue ...
Commissioned by King James I, it is also known as the King James Version. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/) ...