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 ...
To what extent is it correct that scholars differ on whether or not prophets are infallible against minor sins? Which opinion is predominant? Is a person who believed in the first opinion for a period ...
The LORD your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior, Who will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love. ―Zephaniah 3:17 Zephaniah, the ninth of the Minor Prophets, has an interesting ...
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” ...
Reviewed Works: ‮שני פירושי ר׳ אברהם אבן עזרא לתרי־עשר‬. Volume I: Hosea, Joel, Amos Uriel SimonThe Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra on Hosea Abe Lipshitz Established in 1889, the Jewish Quarterly ...
The Eno River Players announced the world premiere of Twelve Minor Prophets, a new play by Charlie Mayhew and Leo Egger. Based on the Book of the Twelve from the Bible, the show is a freewheeling ...