While the first wave of Jews entered the Babylonian
Exile around the year 596, a second wave came in 586 after a rebellion
was put down by the Babylonians and …
Time after time we discover that it was the external
events of human history that more than anything else shaped the
content of those writings that would someday …
Note: This column is based on the research of a student
who is just completing the tenth grade at George Marshall High School
in Falls …
Where is it that Christian people today focus their
anger? One has only to look at the content of current ecclesiastical
debates, listen to the rhetoric of church …
I did not realize how thoroughly biblical literature
has shaped Western civilization until I took a course offered by The
Teaching Company entitled “Great Artists of the Italian …
The name of the Torah’s fifth and final book according
to the Bible is Deuteronomy. That name comes to us from the
combination of two Greek words: “deutero,” …
The emergence of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright into the
presidential campaign is, I am sure, an unexpected and probably
unwelcome diversion for the Obama camp. It gets him, …
Whether I am on the lecture circuit, where I spend most
of my time, or in my home a normal day for me starts about 6:00 a.m.,
when …
Most people do not seem to realize that events in what we call the secular world of history shaped so much of the writing of the biblical story. …
The somewhat blurred eyes of the nation’s political
stargazers are focused at least until April 22 on the State of Pennsylvania.
That is the date on which its citizens …