I t’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

Below are quotes from the early Church Fathers from books not in the Protestant Bible, but that are in the Catholic Bible.  In one quote from St. Augustine, he even lists the canon of the Old ...

Richard J. Clifford. Richard J. Clifford, S.J., is professor of Old Testament and dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (founded in June 2008). A former editor of The Catholic ...

If you have a popular Protestant translation of the Bible, like the King James Version, you will see that there are 39 books that make up the Old Testament. If you were to pick up a Catholic Bible ...

Codex Sinaiticus, Book of Matthew. Wikimedia. Sinaiticus may not be the oldest extant bible, however. Another compendium of Old and New Testaments is the Codex Vaticanus, which is from around 300 ...

Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch had the help of 12 other Catholic biblical scholars to gather and compose the commentary on the books of the Old Testament alone. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

Almost 20 years in the making, a revised Old Testament uses updated language to get readers closer to the ancient texts. Copies of the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible in English first ...

The Old Testament is actually full of examples of God’s mercy and love. Exodus 34:6 , for example, speaks of God’s compassion, love, and faithfulness. Other examples include Isaiah 40:11 ...

In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the Old Testament includes writings considered apocryphal by Protestants. The New Testament contains four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...