Review: Delivered Out of Empire
In “Delivered Out of Empire: Pivotal Moments in the Book of Exodus,” Walter Brueggemann shows how Exodus consistently reveals a God in radical solidarity with the powerless.
Time To Go Old Testament?
This issue of A Public Witness explores public comments implying the Old and New Testaments are pitted against each other — echoing an ancient heresy.
Reading the Old Testament While Pregnant
Casey Cep: As the novelist Marilynne Robinson says, Biblical history so often depends on the birth of a baby. Read full piece
Rereading the Old Testament with Modern Research
In 2001, the first draft of the human genome was published in the journal Nature. The research effort sought to identify all the genes in human