The reader of the Old Testament must constantly turn to his Bible dictionary or encyclopedia for information concerning the people and places mentioned. And with the continuing activity in ...

Why do we read anything? I can’t really answer that question. I don’t know why you are reading this and not something else, or why the other day I finally read Montaigne’s essay on thumbs, which had ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 18, No. 2, Jan., 1906 Notes on Old Testament History. III. Jud ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship.

One of the real problems of the preaching ministry today is making the principles of the Bible pertinent to a space-conscious era. Yet it is the space-consciousness of our time that has caused many a ...

In both Calvinist and Catholic theology, God’s “elect” are often understood to be the people that God has chosen to be saved on the last day. Recently, we looked at individual places and people God ...

With apologies to the Polish Catholics celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa on Aug. 26: Blessings for the feast of Melchizedek. Yes, that Melchizedek, from Genesis 14 and Hebrews 7 and ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient Assyrian inscription that may shed light on historical events described in the Old Testament. The discovery, a tiny 2.5-centimeter pottery shard ...