Some ministers anachronistically use those words to describe love in the Hebrew Bible; others mistakenly believe that hesed is the only Hebrew word for love in scripture. As a corrective, Park focuses ...

It’s not just the emphasis on sex that makes the text unusual. The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least ...

An LGBTQ+ pastor insists that the Christian right gets it wrong, arguing that the Bible is a queer-friendly text.

For the idea of love, biblical Hebrew has precious few synonyms. Yet the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation ...

Most people often condemn homosexuality and they use the bible as basis for their condemnation. The tragic reality is that they don’t know the original meaning of the words in Hebrew or Greek tjta ...

Kaitlyn Schiess offers some perspective on the use and abuse of the Bible in the public square, as well as some wisdom for when you want to pick the Good Book up again.

For readers who have had scripture wielded against them as a kind of cosmic rulebook, this approach may be healing. For all readers, Parker enlivens scripture with her rich, creative interpretations.

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.