The term “Old Testament” is a loaded one since it assumes the existence of a “new” testament — an idea Christians and ...

The Old Testament discusses the Messiah across various books, but it goes beyond describing a potential savior sent by God. It's filled with predictions about the Messiah, and what makes it ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of ...