Big Spring, Texas / / September 6, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Summary Historical Context: The Old Testament spans thousands ...

Forecast: Given Brueggemann's stature in Old Testament scholarship and the fresh perspectives of this work, his introduction is likely to become a standard text in seminaries and theological schools.

In this week's lecture in our Old Testament course, Professor Christine Hayes examines 'the tension between covenant theology, emphasizing the conditional Mosaic convenant from Mt. Sinai, and royal ...

Although not all may agree, I nominate as the most important work in Old Testament studies to appear during 1964 the first volume of the Anchor Bible, Genesis, a translation and commentary by Ephraim ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Established in 1889, the Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR) is the oldest English-language journal in the fields of Jewish studies.

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the language of ...

I am delighted that so many of you are watching, reading or listening to the our Yale University course introducing the Old Testament. Some of you have been taking part in the online discussion on the ...