11:9). Jesus Christ, Incarnate God, fulfills the New Testament Church. He is the New Covenant. Such fulfillment underscores the significance of favorite phrases and terms from the Old Testament in ...

Amy-Jill Levine is professor of New Testament and Jewish studies at Hartford International University. Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Short ...

The Pharisees have had a bad reputation for 2,000 years of church history, and the rise of critical study has done little to ... and pause to consider how negative portrayals of the Pharisees could be ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...