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Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill completes his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, with the prophets and the Book of Revelation.
Traditionally, there are five major prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations (attributed to Jeremiah), Ezekiel and Daniel. They are major not because they’re more important, exactly, but because ...
That classification is called Law because the larger subject portion of those first 5 books of the Bible detail the laws God gave to Israel. Those books, also, are called the Pentateuch (5 books) and ...
Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor "like a drunken man" (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah "walked naked and ...
As one of the Bible’s four major prophets, Isaiah is most remembered for his prophecies of Jesus Christ in the last 27 chapters of the book that carries his name. The Revs.
What’s most sorely lacking in “Of Kings and Prophets,” though, is that same spark of narrative ingenuity. Without it, the show isn’t the biblical “Game of Thrones” it wants to be.