This book is a new edition of a well-known introduction to the Old Testament, written by Larry Boadt and later revised and updated by my teachers, Richard Clifford and Dan Harrington. Paulist Press ...

The Preacher’s remark that “of the making of many books there is no end” comes readily to mind when anyone attempts a survey of this sort. The current revival of religious interest in the United ...

Whether on scrolls or in codices, these texts continue to speak across traditions, inviting readers to engage with them in all their richness. For many, the terms “Hebrew Bible” and “Old Testament” ...

Saint Augustine is quoted as saying “The New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New?” There is a tendency in Christianity today to overlook the Old Testament. To some it ...

Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them what was written about himself in all the (Old ...

One compilation, two testaments, sixty-six books, thirty-nine books in one, twenty-seven in the other, and written over a period of 1500 years; obviously, I am talking about the Bible. We often think ...

In theory, I am committed to preaching the Old Testament. I generally feel exercised about how little the Old Testament is proclaimed in churches, how rarely it is preached, how many Christians act as ...