This book is a new edition of a well-known introduction to the Old Testament, written by Larry Boadt and later revised and updated by my teachers, Richard Clifford and Dan Harrington. Paulist Press ...

At least three times in this book, Brent Strawn assures readers that he doesn’t believe that Christian preachers and teachers intentionally tell lies about the Old Testament. But that doesn’t diminish ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

The Preacher’s remark that “of the making of many books there is no end” comes readily to mind when anyone attempts a survey of this sort. The current revival of religious interest in the United ...

Originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Bible is the most sold book in history, it first translation into another ...