Commentaries tend to fluctuate between arid, compendious technical analyses and vivid but tendentious tours de force; few of them help readers understand the connection between the biblical texts in ...

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Avivah Zornberg’s textual criticism about the self in relation to others is showing up in unorthodox places. Lucy Slurzberg, a relational psychoanalyst and couples therapist, offered a struggling ...

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School of Theology and Ministry colloquium marks the publication of a comprehensive new biblical commentary A panel at the two-day Dean's Colloquium included (l-r): School of Theology and Ministry ...

From his first moments as pope, Benedict XVI established biblical renewal as a key theme of his pontificate. In fact, he spoke at length about the proper reading and interpretation of sacred Scripture ...

Before his untimely death in Novem­ber of 2008, William Placher was a celebrated teacher who exercised his gifts of exceptional insight and clarity of expression not only in the classroom but also in ...

Hymn writer Martin Franzmann was born Jan. 29: 1907: in Lake City: Minn. His friend Robin Leaver, author of “Come to the Feast,” a book about Franzmann, writes that the boy “grew up within the ...

St. Jerome is known for his Biblical translations and commentaries. The Jerome Biblical Commentary, probably the most well-known modern English commentary in the United States (though not without some ...

To a young Jessica Sacks growing up in England, the country’s towering chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, was more than just a distant religious figure — he was an uncle. “He was very busy, so we didn’t get ...