I t’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

The book covers ten mistruths touching on a variety of topics, including God’s nature, violence in the scriptures, what the law is (and is not), and how the Old Testament relates to Jesus Christ.

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible, from academic publisher Routledge Press, proposes a provocative new theory regarding when, where and why the Old Testament was written. According to the ...

A grateful friend and colleague reflects on the towering Old Testament scholar.

A book of history, Ezra is with the other books of history earlier in the Old Testament. It tells the story of the Israelites returning to the Promised Land after they were held as captives in ...

She explores questions of gender and sexuality in the Old Testament in her first book, Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor, to be released in April as part of The Ancient ...