then I hope you’ll jump in for a four-week overview of the 66 books in the testaments ... Hebrew designations of what Christians call the “Old Testament” are basically in three sections ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location.

Faith Works: A Lenten journey through all 66 books of the Bible offers insights ... is a good time to take and read (as St. Augustine memorably heard). One place in the Old Testament I think is worth ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

261, “The Foundational Meaning of ‘Rock’ in the Old ... all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he” (Deuteronomy 32:4). In the New Testame ...

They all ate the same spiritual food and drank ... The word “rock” prompts me to write about its meaning in the Old Testament and next week in the New. Regarding the 1 Corinthians passage ...

A children’s version of the New Testament, ‘King of Kings’ is based on a work by Charles Dickens that was written as a gift to his children.

The Bible mentions the Book of Jasher twice. The Book of Jasher was lost sometime in antiquity, and no mention of it appears ...

Is that all the Church ever talks about ... we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column, we will explore Christ’s teaching in the New Testament.

In the Eucharist, all these elements are combined to ... we must remember the words of the catechism, “...the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God ...