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

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and Last Judgement. But who wrote ...

but that are in the Catholic Bible. In one quote from St. Augustine, he even lists the canon of the Old Testament and it includes the books that are considered apocryphal by Protestantism.

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 ... designate the sacred books of each.

Luther also at first changed the order of the books of the New Testament, relegating Hebrews ... Gordon tells the story of an ...

When we remember John R. Donahue, S.J., prominent themes that come to mind include his passions for Catholic biblical ...

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 ...

Jewish celebrities who find solace in the New Testament ignite Jewish fears about assimilation and antisemitism.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

(Curiously, the Book of Enoch is not included in the Bible, but there are numerous references to Enoch in the New Testament.) The Enochic version of events often mentions ... Demonology has long been ...