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

The Christmas story famously beings with an angel visiting the virgin Mary. Yet their history is of beings capable of both ...

Luther also at first changed the order of the books of the ... part story of Bible translations, editions and veneration, ...

The Old Testament readings are ordered similarly to Israel’s Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament readings attempt to follow the order in which the books were authored. This plan takes you through the ...

Your favourite book please? I remember one professor at Moody Bible Institute asking all students in his class about their favourite book in the Old Testament (OT). Most of the answers were rather ...

The Bible tells of His birth ... shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6) Christmas is the annual ...

Its themes of friendship, bravery, and the triumph of good over evil continue to resonate with readers of all ... Bible and the Quran, or literary classics like Don Quixote and Harry Potter, these ...

When a student in Oxford in the 1980s, I walked into a church bookshop and picked up a landscape-format book full of complex ...

Add to all this that someone may have a nickname or be related to someone by both marriage and blood and you can see it requires close reading and sometimes careful research to understand biblical ...

He [the Lord] fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. The Lord preserves all who ...

“The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (I Corinthians 15: 52–53).

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