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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the old translation of the world’s most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar.” Make that “brother or ...

As the title of this book states, Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman’s Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith is about belief, and if you have any doubts or ...

In the criticism of George Weigel’s intemperate and churlish source criticism of Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, criticism which is warranted, it has not been much noted that biblical scholars ...

Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. This ...

For the last 80 years the study of the Old Testament has been characterized by certain well-recognized methods which have become known collectively as the “critical approach.” An analysis of this ...

For Orthodox Jews around the world, the Torah is seen as the unmediated and uncorrupted word of God delivered to the Israelites, and thus Orthodox rabbis and scholars have largely avoided the ...

I have been reading Hans Frei’s classic book on biblical interpretation The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative. To my delight he deals with fundamental changes that were brought about by Anthony Collins in ...

Andrew Bolt's epiphany about biblical contradictions is reminiscent of an engineering student sitting through a literature class, complaining about the impossibility of "Juliet" being the "sun." ...

Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and chairman of the Museum of the Bible, is returning 11,500 antiquities to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments. The ancient clay seals and fragments of papyrus do ...

Washington state Rep. Matt Shea acknowledged Wednesday he had distributed a four-page manifesto titled “Biblical Basis for War,” which describes the Christian god as a “warrior,” details the ...