She earned a bachelor’s degree from Stern College and completed both her MA and PhD in Bible at Bar-Ilan University. Her focus is on biblical studies, textual analysis, and the history of Jewish ...

A Protestant considers a Catholic theologian’s call for an “ecclesial” reading of Scripture. On November 10, 1942, following a British victory in Egypt during World War II, Winston Churchill famously ...

New strategies for interpreting Scripture turn out to be not so new—and deepen our life in Christ. A wide range of voices claims that a crisis of biblical interpretation is taking place. But contrary ...

Periodically, folks ask about whether we are supposed to read the Bible literally. The Church does require a literal interpretation of biblical texts. But that does not mean what most Americans ...

A cartoon in the New Yorker shows a man making inquiry at the information counter of a large bookstore. The clerk, tapping on his keyboard and peering intently into the computer screen, replies, “The ...

The following are the basic Biblical interpretative methods which I offer as guidelines for your Bible study. For a clear understanding, please make sure you grab last week’s and next week’s articles.

Interpreting the word of God can be more difficult when the words of the Bible get in our way. Put another way: God’s word is so much more than words. I began to realize that back in the mid-’80s ...

The Catholic view of authority and Holy Scripture is not about some ubiquitous churchman looking over everyone’s shoulder so that they would interpret each verse exactly as the Church says it ought to ...

This exhibit juxtaposes biblical art with text in creative ways, combining bibles from Archives & Special Collections with a selection of washi prints from the travelling exhibit Beauty Given by Grace ...