The stunning speeches by the newly converted Christians in the book of Acts include moving summaries of Old Testament history, which are recited by Stephen, Peter, and others, precisely because ...

When reading the book of Genesis you may at some point ask how the patriarchs of scripture were able to live over 900 years old. Are there ... first time in earth’s history, it rained for ...

The archaeologists sought out Old Testament sites and renamed places ... author of Facts on the Ground, a history of Israeli archaeology. Those terms, she says, “the [West Bank] settlers now ...

In the Old Testament, the term “rock” is not only ... Moses proceeds to beautifully summarize the history of God’s chosen people and their often “rocky” relationship with the Almighty.

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses ...

Numbers and Deuteronomy have a whole history of their own. They are a traditional unit in their own right; Hebrew designations of what Christians call the “Old Testament” are basically in ...