It’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

Far-right white evangelical Christian fundamentalists have a very complex relationship with Jews and Israel. On one hand, ...

I can’t follow Marcion in his editing project, but I certainly get the tension that prompted it: The Old Testament is a difficult book full of difficult stories and difficult people.

The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.

Casey Cep writes about her experience reading the Old Testament during pregnancy, for a course taught by the novelist Marilynne Robinson, noting how Biblical stories about mothers stand out to her ...

The Hebrew Scriptures place internal struggles on full display—and teach us a lot about spiritual practice.

Rather we must acknowledge that in whatever ways the Old Testament is caught up in human fallenness and cultural specificity, the New Testament is also. At the same time, I would urge that both ...

Got religion? Well, it's time you lost it, says the Rev. Andrew Farley in his new book, "God without Religion." Christians need no spiritual relationship with the Old Testament, including the Ten C… ...