At least three times in this book, Brent Strawn assures readers that he doesn’t believe that Christian preachers and teachers intentionally tell lies about the Old Testament. But that doesn’t diminish ...

In a word, he charges an entire testament of the Christian Bible with pervasive theological deficiency—the Old Testament. Boyd’s criterion for measuring the Old Testament’s theological deficiency is, ...

Instead of asking if the Old Testament is dying, Brettler said it might be more interesting to ask which limbs of the body are still alive. For Christians, that’s probably the prophets and the ...

The Old Testament is foundational to the New Testament — part one of a two-act play — because it shows the degree of man’s depravity, his inability to save himself, and his desperate need of ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises.

At the end of the Old Testament period, we find passages in Wisdom that conceive of the righteous as God’s elect—an election based on one’s fidelity to God rather than one’s national identity.

The Old Testament’s matter-of-fact recounting of Deborah’s role as prophet and judge in Israel at a pivotal moment in the nation’s history showed me that God can—and will!—use anyone God ...

A person from the Old Testament would be shocked at how inhospitable most people are in the West. We don’t know our neighbors, and we don’t invite anyone who rings our doorbell to join us for ...

Reading the Old Testament While Pregnant As the novelist Marilynne Robinson says, Biblical history so often depends on the birth of a baby. By Casey Cep July 7, 2021 ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Art and theology converge to bring the Old Testament’s stories to life. Mosaic from the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, Italy (photo: Public Domain) ...