While it has long been recognized that Nehemiah vi is animated by the twin concerns of fear and false prophecy, the present study offers a new reading of this chapter ...

"There was a time when this community was known as the murder capital of the state of New York," said The Reverend David Brawley, of St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East Brooklyn, N.Y. A lot of ...

Temple work in Ezra-Nehemiah goes beyond faith: it’s tied to social pressures, informal taxes, and forced labour under imperial rule. In our final blog post before the summer break, Daniele Soares ...

Standing figure of Nehemiah armed with sword and shield in right arm, book in left arm. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

The last book of the old dispensation mingles remonstrations against the sins of priests and people with threats of judgments, exhortations to repentance, and prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles ...