The Old Testament is vital for understanding the New Testament. ... to read the New Testament as mostly a privatized affair—“Jesus and me”—and to leave politics and social justice out of it.

This book is a new edition of a well-known introduction to the Old Testament, written by Larry Boadt and later revised and updated by my teachers, Richard Clifford and Dan Harrington. Paulist Press ...

Marilynne Robinson makes the first book of the Old Testament new again in ‘Reading Genesis’ ... READING GENESIS. By Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 352 pp., $29.

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 ...

Second, we have the Passover, the most significant event for the people of the Old Testament. For a full account of the Passover ritual, read Exodus 12. Here are some highlights that relate to the ...