Around 727 BC when King Ahaz of Judah died, Isaiah made a prophesy against the Philistines. He warned them not to rejoice that the rod that struck them was broken. "Wail, O gate. Howl, O city. Melt ...

The Rev. Eugene Curry, senior pastor, Park Hill Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo.: Translating animal names in ancient documents is notoriously tricky because the specific identity of the things ...

It was a day of crisis and conflict, of alliances and adversaries, of emissaries and intrigue, of treaties and threats. Eight centuries before the birth of Christ throughout the Near East there was ...

Today, with Israel under so much pressure from “friends” and many enemies, and anti-Semitism unreasonably showing its ugly face on the world stage, it’s wise to look back at our Prophets of old to ...

Many of the so-called prophesies of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures are deliberate mistranslations. Here are two of them. In an article well worth reading, the late Christopher Hitchens makes the ...

Today, with Israel under so much pressure from “friends” and its many enemies, and anti-Semitism unreasonably showing its ugly face on the world stage, it’s wise to look back at our Prophets of old to ...

In today’s readings from the Letter to the Romans and the Gospel of Matthew, we learn about Jesus’ human and divine origins. Romans asserts that Jesus is “descended from David according to the flesh” ...

ARCHAEOLOGY experts in Israel have unearthed a small seal linked to an ancient king of Judah 2,700 years ago. Experts believe the so-called LMLK seal was stamped on royal taxes and treasures of the ...