In the Bible's Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant is linked to several miracles, such as protecting the Israelites from ...

The stunning speeches by the newly converted Christians in the book of Acts include moving summaries of Old Testament history, which are recited by Stephen, Peter, and others, precisely because ...

The Old Testament includes numerous prophecies about the Messiah. The fascinating thing is that many of these prophecies were fulfilled, and we can find evidence of this in several books of the ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

For more on Joshua’s faith and leadership, see Volume 89. Then, recently in 249, we discussed Joshua’s most famous verse: “As ...

Genesis 2 tells us the story of Adam, Eden and the creation of Eve — a narrative brought to life in Jan Brueghel’s vivid ...

Join us for the next year as we make our way through the Old Testament. Despite the Second Vatican Council’s promotion of Scripture reading, many Catholics are still not as familiar with the ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Why and how is the Old Testament figure of the Queen Mother a type or model of Our Lady? A: Comparing the queen mother tradition, as it existed in Israel to ...

However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses ...