The Books of the Old Testament, by Robert H. Pfeiffer (Harper) is an abridgement of his earlier Introduction. In the author’s own words, it “adds nothing, changes no conclusions, and omits ...

David W. Kerr has been Professor of Old Testament at Gordon Divinity School since 1953. He holds the B.A. degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the B.D. and Th.M. degrees from ...

Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of Books inspired by God. The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, ...

Casey Cep writes about her experience reading the Old Testament during pregnancy, for a course taught by the novelist Marilynne Robinson, noting how Biblical stories about mothers stand out to her ...

Before Jesus arrived and his divine father chilled out, the Old Testament God was, ironically, kind of a hellraiser. He was not a nice guy. He really liked killing people. And he may have actually ...

People of the Covenant: An Invitation to the Old Testament Dianne Bergant, CSA. Sheed & Ward, $16.95 (216pp) ISBN 978-1-58051-090-5 ...

The major problem lay with the Old Testament which Jewish scholars limited to 39 books. However, there was also a Greek Old Testament (i.e., the Septuagint ) which contained these 39 books and others.

About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. ... Fragment of a 1,750-year-old New Testament translation discovered.