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 ...

In the whole Hebrew Bible the full appellation ‘El Shaddai’ is used only in connection with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Shaddai by itself also appears 31 times in the ancient book of Prophet Job, who ...

Ehyeh is the verb ‘to be’ in its future tense singular form and means ‘I will/might/may become the one who I may/will/might become,’ indicating that Ehyeh is The God of Potentialities, The God of ...

Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, Vol. 50, No. 1/2, CANADIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SLAVISTS, OHRID, MACEDONIA, 2008 (March-June 2008), pp. 1-16 ...

Through Israel’s returns home and national rebirth, we have already seen sparks of prophecy return. “Two men remained behind in the camp, the name of one was Eldad and the name of the second was Medad ...

The quickest way to understand the audacity and originality of what David Rosenberg is attempting in A Literary Bible, the big book of his selected translations from the Hebrew Bible, is to read the ...

In his enumeration of the various leadership roles within the nation that would take shape after his death, Moses mentions not only the priest/judge and king but also the prophet: “The Lord your God ...

An ancient seal bearing a Hebrew script and recovered in Jerusalem may have belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. The seal may be the earliest historical evidence relating to the holy man, who was ...