To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...

The New covenant is all about salvation and restoration. Jesus (‘God is salvation’) is the Messenger of the [New] covenant of ...

a covenant, agreement, pact. In the language of the Bible it denotes the agreement or pact between God and man: Man agreed to do certain things and God, in return, promised certain blessings.

(Image) In this article, biblical scholar Michael Coogan describes the Bible as an anthology of texts composed over centuries by different sets of authors. Mainstream Jewish and Christian ...

This notion parallels practices in Western legal traditions where individuals place their hand on a Bible ... covenant”). Just as the holy neshama (“soul”), described as a divine spark from ...

In Ancient Palestine, numerous wars took place between the Israelites and the Philistines. What do we know about these wars?