Professor Elizabeth Polczer, a biblical scholar at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, believes the Bible is the result of ...

The ACLU and a coalition of other groups sent a letter to superintendents and school boards last week telling them not to ...

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For many of us, the most famous giant from the Bible is Goliath. Goliath, who hailed from the city of Gath, was the ...

A biblical scholar has claimed that the Bible was written by more than 40 different people, including the famous books of ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

For forty-eight weeks out of every year Black churches in the Diaspora and on the African continent regale people of African ancestry with spiritually motivating tales drawn from a book that was ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

First, the mission of Jesus. He is the Messiah whose coming was anticipated and prophesized throughout the Hebrew Bible, also ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden chapter of the Bible dating back nearly 1,500 years in an ancient Vatican manuscript. The ...

The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...