Many readers of the Torah are shocked and disturbed when they discover its seemingly approving references to slavery. Yes. The Torah recognises the existence of slaves, and legislates some aspect of ...

Many of the so-called prophesies of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures are deliberate mistranslations. Here are two of them. In an article well worth reading, the late Christopher Hitchens makes the ...

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St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church's adult education program will offer a course next month exploring the Hebrew scriptures from a modern, scholarly perspective. The four-session ...