The entire Hebrew Bible was completed by about 100 C.E., meaning it took several centuries to finish the compilation. The biggest challenge with determining just when the Old Testament came to be ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

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, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

What Christians call the Old Testament and Jews call the Torah is a very old collection of texts. Its final formulation in writing dates back to between 450 and 250 BCE, but its origins in oral ...

Walter Brueggemann, one of the most revered biblical scholars of the modern era and a prophetic voice in American theology, has died at the age of 92.

“What causes certain Old Testament laws to cease to be literally normative for Christians today? The primary reason is that Christ fulfilled the law through his life and death in our place. God has ...

Family planning under the Law. A Christian normally experiences some tension in trying to apply the Old Testament to his life. There is a theological tension over the question whether instructions ...

Join us for the next year as we make our way through the Old Testament. Despite the Second Vatican Council’s promotion of Scripture reading, many Catholics are still not as familiar with the ...

OLD TESTAMENT Noah’s Liberty Ship What did history’s most famous boat look like? Though many religious scholars doubt the story of Noah and the Flood, there has been no lack of efforts to ...