Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor “like a drunken man” (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah “walked naked and barefoot three years” ...

The quickest way to understand the audacity and originality of what David Rosenberg is attempting in A Literary Bible, the big book of his selected translations from the Hebrew Bible, is to read the ...

The Rev. John Bertram Phillips of Dorsetshire has a rare and felicitous talent: he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to “transmit freshness and life ...

Many of the Bible's prophetic books describe cataclysmic events that will befall the Earth in the days before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The Gospels, for instance, warned of wars and rumours ...

In the beginning — November 2014 — Benny Lau, a Modern Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem, taught the first chapter of Genesis. More than three years and 929 chapters later, he’s starting it all again on ...

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 ...