Our perceptions of an angry, Old Testament deity are distorted. This is the second in a six-part series of essays from a cross section of leading scholars revisiting the place of the “First Testament” ...

Editor’s note: Columns in the Faith section reflect opinions and perspectives of the writer and are not necessarily those of The Republic. A friend recently asked me why God in the Old Testament (the ...

In theory, I am committed to preaching the Old Testament. I generally feel exercised about how little the Old Testament is proclaimed in churches, how rarely it is preached, how many Christians act as ...