Old Testament

One is struck by the diverse nature of Christian commentators' reactions to the existence of these accumulated errors, improbabilities and… Read More

Chapters 6, 7 and 8 are devoted to the description of the Flood. In actual fact, there are two descriptions;… Read More

The Jewish calendar, which follows the data contained in the Old Testament, places the dates of the above very precisely.… Read More

As Father de Vaux points out, Genesis "starts with two juxtaposed descriptions of the Creation". When examining them from the… Read More

One wonders how many readers of the Old Testament, if asked the above question, would reply by repeating what they… Read More

Few of the subjects dealt within the Old Testament, and likewise the Gospels, give rise to a confrontation with the… Read More

These form collections of unquestionable literary unity. Foremost among them are the Psalms, the greatest monument to Hebrew poetry. A… Read More

Under this heading we find the preaching of various prophets who in the Old Testament have been classed separately from… Read More

Torah is the Semitic name. The Greek expression, which in English gives us 'Pentateuch', designates a work in five parts;… Read More

The Old Testament is a collection of works of greatly differing length and many different genres. They were written in… Read More