If the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would accuse them of anti-Semitism for daring to describe his government as a ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

David and Goliath is probably one of the most well-known stories from the Old Testament. As many of us learned in Sunday School, God helped David kill the Israelites’ giant foe by guiding one of five ...

During the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana (New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Jews contemplate their individual estate before God but also the spiritual heritage of their people. A ...

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Archaeologists in Israel say that they have found a clay seal mark that may bear the signature of the Biblical Prophet Isaiah. The 2,700-year-old stamped clay artifact was found during an excavation ...

The death of Walter Brueggemann on June 5, 2025, occasioned an outpouring of reflections on and appreciations of his extraordinary life of scholarship and service, one defined by erudition as well as ...