Richard Rohr begs readers to journey from anger to sadness to compassionate love.
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 ...
Chosen by Andrew Abernethy, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, coeditor of “The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness,” and author of “Savoring Scripture: A Six-Step Guide to Studying the ...
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 ...
"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 400 pages, $27) In his debut novel, “The Prophets,” Robert Jones Jr. ambitiously reimagines a past in the antebellum American South and ...
The holiest day in the Jewish calendar is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, with its theme of repentance. And one of the synagogue readings for Yom Kippur is the Book of Jonah (in Hebrew, sefer Yonah) ...
An artistic representation of Jesus Christ at the Cathedral of Cefalù, in Italy, c 1130. | Andreas Wahra / CC BY-SA 3.0 In The Second Book of Prophets, Malayalam writer Benyamin employs his formidable ...