biblical scholar Michael Coogan describes the Bible as an anthology of texts composed over centuries by different sets of authors. Mainstream Jewish and Christian organizations, including ...
Pastor and author John Piper has challenged Christians to read the entire Bible in 2025 but issued a clear warning — the path ...
The Bible is not to be understood and read in the same way as other historical documents. Although the authors did include many historical facts and truths, this was not their main aim.
That the biblical authors in the centuries before Christ, writing in the Old Testament, intended to refer in advance to Christ and New Testament faith, looks to the modern historical consciousness ...