Biblical criticism is a comparatively recent development in the history of the Christian Church. Beginning with the rise of rationalism in the seventeenth century under Spinoza and later with the ...

Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. This ...

In the criticism of George Weigel’s intemperate and churlish source criticism of Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, criticism which is warranted, it has not been much noted that biblical scholars ...

For Orthodox Jews around the world, the Torah is seen as the unmediated and uncorrupted word of God delivered to the Israelites, and thus Orthodox rabbis and scholars have largely avoided the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the old translation of the world’s most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar.” Make that “brother or ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In the old translation of the world's most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar." Make that brother ...

Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and chairman of the Museum of the Bible, is returning 11,500 antiquities to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments. The ancient clay seals and fragments of papyrus do ...

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