This exhibit juxtaposes biblical art with text in creative ways, combining bibles from Archives & Special Collections with a selection of washi prints from the travelling exhibit Beauty Given by Grace ...
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 ...
Trends in biblical interpretation come and go, even while the basic text has endured for almost two millennia. New and forthcoming biblical studies books can’t leave the apostle Paul alone, continue ...
The following are the basic Biblical interpretative methods which I offer as guidelines for your Bible study. For a clear understanding, please make sure you grab last week’s and next week’s articles.
If deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida could see what they are doing at the Norton Simon Museum, he might laugh himself to death. That is, if he weren’t already dead. They are Anthony Keller ...
Someone once compared the way people read the Bible with three kinds of home plate umpires. One umpire calls them the way he sees them. Another sees them the way he calls them. And a third kind calls ...
The Catholic view of authority and Holy Scripture is not about some ubiquitous churchman looking over everyone’s shoulder so that they would interpret each verse exactly as the Church says it ought to ...
Most Catholics only hear the Bible interpreted by men—priests and deacons—in the context of Sunday Mass. Jaime Waters, an associate Professor of Old Testament at the Boston College School of Theology ...
(RNS) — For students hoping to become pastors in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the exegesis exam is already stressful. The dayslong exam — which requires students to answer multiple essay ...