A Scripture expert who is now the official preacher of Pope Francis has explained what makes the Bible “modern” and why knowledge of the word of God is important for evangelization.
First it declares that “the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one, in continuity with the Jewish Scriptures of the Second Temple period, a reading analogous to the Christian reading ...
You may recall that there was no “bible” (which means “book”) in those days. The Scriptures were written on scrolls. Isaiah had its own scroll because it was so large (for example ...
John Barton is a former professor of holy scriptures at the University of Oxford and the author of A History of the Bible: The Books and Its Faiths. Q: Just how reliable is the Old Testament as an ...
And then the really complicated but beautiful part of this Bible was an invitation to ordinary laypeople to gather around passages of scripture. We wanted 500 Bible study groups and ... The artwork is ...
Or at least rethink our understanding of biblical inerrancy? Let’s take the bull by the horns and examine some of the most commonly referenced “flat earth” Bible verses. The earth has four corners, ...