I can’t do justice to the fascinating, learned, and provocative e-mails you sent me about Jonah and the whale. Everyone—and I mean everyone—loves that story. Let me touch briefly on the question that ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

The unlikely pairing of Hosea and Gomer might be one of the most unusual in the Bible, even more so than the much-better-known David and Goliath or Jonah and the whale. Hosea was commanded by God to ...

The Book of Micah is just seven chapters in nine pages. Yet Julia O’Brien, professor of Old Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary, has written a 141-page book on the work of Micah, one of the 12 ...

A. I take it that you’re speaking of the usual 5 divisions of the Old Testament as being books of Law, History, Wisdom (or Poetical), Major Prophets, and Minor Prophets. We know the books called “Law” ...

In these atheistic, agnostic and even ahistorical times, the Prophet Micah is not often referenced in contemporary political discourse. Iain Gray managed it today - advising his fellow MSPs to act ...