Like many of his contemporaries - including Jesus - the gospel author Luke was deeply familiar with narratives in the Hebrew ...

In my last column I wrote that grace was not new in the New Testament. The covenant (testament) was new, but grace was not ...

The issues of anthropomorphism (tashbih) in Islam are over the very few anthropomorphic descriptions of God in the Qur’an, or the more frequent aḥadith al-ṣifat – traditions that depict God and His ...

This extraordinary discovery not only redefines our understanding of salt caves but also adds a geological wonder to Israel’s ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill launches his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, starting from the ...

Day, celebrated on April 1st, is a global tradition involving pranks and practical jokes, from simple tricks to elaborate ...

Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as effective ... the deceit of Jacob in Genesis 27, incest in Genesis 19:32 and inhumanity in Psalm 137:9. Also in Hosea 1:2, God commands the prophet ...

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...

In House of David, the giants are living in a cave and mostly hiding from human society until Achish finds them and forges an ...

Genesis 2:1-3). (Interesting, as well, is the fact that in Hebrew the three sentences that make up Genesis 2:1-3 are each made up of seven Hebrew words). What connection might this have with the ...

Cameron Waugh has been handed down a two-year jail term with 15 months of the sentence suspended for his insider trading in gold stock Genesis Minerals. If Albemarle executives ever wonder what ...