I can’t do justice to the fascinating, learned, and provocative e-mails you sent me about Jonah and the whale. Everyone—and I mean everyone—loves that story. Let me touch briefly on the question that ...

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 ...

The Book of Micah is just seven chapters in nine pages. Yet Julia O’Brien, professor of Old Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary, has written a 141-page book on the work of Micah, one of the 12 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This early papyrus codex is a ...

The prophets give us a profound witness to the power of prayer. The prophet Elijah is the chief among the holy group, which is why he is so highlighted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but ...

A. I take it that you’re speaking of the usual 5 divisions of the Old Testament as being books of Law, History, Wisdom (or Poetical), Major Prophets, and Minor Prophets. We know the books called “Law” ...

Bartholomew Flynn is a 22-year-old Iowa transplant, living in the Alberta neighborhood of Portland. He's an ambitionless barista and cyclist who occasionally publishes a 'zine (a hand-produced ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

Somewhere between Flogging Molly and Langhorne Slim lies Damion Suomi (pronounced sue-me), a rootsy Floridian rocker with a strong dose of the Irish in his rollicking and reeling Americana. His voice ...