St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church's adult education program will offer a course next month exploring the Hebrew scriptures from a modern, scholarly perspective. The four-session ...

The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...

It has often been said that there is little more to the ethics of the Hebrew Scriptures than doing whatever God commands you to do: If you have instruction directly from God himself or from a prophet, ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings ...

At the Council of Toulouse in 1229 A.D. 45 canons were ratified; 20 of which referred to heresy. “We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament, · · ...

Writing about women in Hebrew Scriptures is not an easy task. A superficial reading of the text will support the notion that Hebrew Scriptures are a series of books written by men and principally ...