Answer: John 1 says Jesus was the agent of creation who made all things. But, the first prophecy about Jesus is thought to be Genesis 3:15. Theologians call this the Protoevangel, or first gospel ...

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (January 2011), pp. 30-49 (20 pages) ...

Instead, he proposed, wise students of the Bible should focus on Jesus’ words exclusively. “If Jesus did not say it,” he ...

With the onset of Advent, we begin a new lectionary cycle which features the Gospel of Matthew, which serves as bridge to Old ...

Lonely, on the run from the papal henchmen, and chagrined at being out of the public eye, Martin Luther holed up in Wartburg Castle and began translating: “Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde” (Gen.

There is hardly an Old Testament passage more difficult to interpret than the curse on Canaan described in the closing verses of Genesis 9. Study readily reveals the diversified views prevailing among ...

In theory, I am committed to preaching the Old Testament. I generally feel exercised about how little the Old Testament is proclaimed in churches, how rarely it is preached, how many Christians act as ...

Early tales of domesticated camels in the Old Testament don't belong there, say archaeologists in a new blow to Biblical literalists. Tame Camelus dromedarius were not brought to the Levant until ...

The esteemed novelist and essayist offers an ambitious but narrow bid to rekindle religion as a source of grounding in the 21st century The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was an out, loud, ...

(RNS) A scholar argues that many contemporary Christians have lost biblical fluency and can no longer speak the language of more than half their sacred Scripture. (RNS) Brent Strawn was teaching at a ...