Jennifer Grace Bird, 43, teaches Bible classes at the University of Portland and Portland Community College. She has a Ph.D in New Testament and Early Christianity from Vanderbilt University. (Melissa ...

This is the second of four excerpts being presented by BrandeisNOW from James Carroll's new book "Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World." The book is a centerpiece of the ...

For nearly 2,000 years, each succeeding generation of Christians has tried to puzzle out whether the Book of Revelation's riddles and symbols has meant its own time was the end of time. Over the past ...

What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred? When I started reading the Bible as a teenager, I was shocked to read the ...

In the decade since the first book in the bestselling series “Left Behind” was published, “end times” philosophy — the end of history as prophesied in the Book of Revelation, the Bible’s last chapter ...