I can’t do justice to the fascinating, learned, and provocative e-mails you sent me about Jonah and the whale. Everyone—and I mean everyone—loves that story. Let me touch briefly on the question that ...

The unlikely pairing of Hosea and Gomer might be one of the most unusual in the Bible, even more so than the much-better-known David and Goliath or Jonah and the whale. Hosea was commanded by God to ...

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 ...

A. I take it that you’re speaking of the usual 5 divisions of the Old Testament as being books of Law, History, Wisdom (or Poetical), Major Prophets, and Minor Prophets. We know the books called “Law” ...

The Eno River Players announced the world premiere of Twelve Minor Prophets, a new play by Charlie Mayhew and Leo Egger. Based on the Book of the Twelve from the Bible, the show is a freewheeling ...

Minor Prophets, Major Lessons What is the basic theme of the Book of Obadiah? What does Hosea's allegory about the faithless Gomer teach us about the relationship between God and the Church? In ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

Bartholomew Flynn is a 22-year-old Iowa transplant, living in the Alberta neighborhood of Portland. He's an ambitionless barista and cyclist who occasionally publishes a 'zine (a hand-produced ...