Given the dependence of Judaism, Christianity and even Islam on the Hebrew Bible, it is important to understand how the Bible depicts blood vengeance.
Articles on Bible
Displaying 41 - 60 of 250 articles
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide solutions.
The Bible remains the most important collection of books in Western civilisation. Regardless of our religious beliefs, it has shaped all of us. But who wrote it? The answer is complicated.
Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond to the concerns of those who worship them.
Faith communities can use their influence and large following to fight climate change.
Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success.
A scholar of American religion explains how a new phenomenon of Jesus images on TikTok is tapping into the prosperity gospel, a Christian belief that God will reward faith with this-worldly comforts.
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate matter.
The ‘Shepherd of Hermas’ has been accused of being pedantic, even boring. In the first few centuries of Christianity, though, it was a hit.
Distinct from civil disobedience, this legal strategy demands complete compliance with the law – even when there are loopholes that the laws’ creators didn’t intend.
There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what historians know about slavery during those eras is horrific.
A scholar of the Hebrew Bible argues that very little is known about the location of Mount Sinai, and it is likely that it was once part of a foundational legend.
Invisible to the naked eye, the work of the wind often goes unnoticed. Yet, for millennia, this unseen force has shaped religion, trade, warfare, culture, science and more.
In the beginning of the Bible, the tree of life represents what sets humans apart from divinity – but other texts use the symbol to depict mankind’s relationship with God.
Missionaries and African translators working on local versions of the Bible divided South Africa’s ethnic groups by language.
Codex Sassoon 1053 is not exactly the oldest known complete Hebrew bible. So how can we explain its astronomical price?
Despite the diverse images used for God in Scripture and Christian tradition, male language and images predominate in contemporary Christian worship.
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.
Those who exclude any groups of people from God’s kingdom choose to ignore the teaching of Jesus.
Support for strong gun ownership rights is often associated with conservative Christian views, but religion and self-defense have a much longer history in the United States.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor, New Testament, & Inaugural Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity
-
Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
-
Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
-
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
-
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
-
Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
-
Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
-
Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
-
Adjunct professor, Theological Studies, Concordia University
-
Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
-
Professor Emerita of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism, and Honorary Professor of the Australian Catholic University, King's College London; Australian Catholic University
-
Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
-
Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
-
Professor of American History, Messiah College
-
Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University