Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor “like a drunken man” (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah “walked naked and barefoot three years” ...

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 ...

Isaiah is "widely regarded as one of the greatest prophets of the Bible," according to Lifehopeandtruth.com, the Church of God's website. Isaiah lived in Jerusalem and the prophecies God gave him ...

The quickest way to understand the audacity and originality of what David Rosenberg is attempting in A Literary Bible, the big book of his selected translations from the Hebrew Bible, is to read the ...

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Religion and politics, those two topics that should never be discussed at Thanksgiving dinner, clash forcefully in ABC’s “Of Kings and Prophets,” a bloodstained take on the biblical tale of David and ...

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious'. The Christian Bible has ...

“The minute we leave this stage we’ll be fighting with broadcast standards and practices…We’re going to go as far as we can… This story is an Old Testament [one that’s] violent [and] sex-drenched.