Simply reading a text involves interpretation ... early Christians believed that the Hebrew Bible was God's book, and therefore a book that should cast light on current events and moral conundrums.

Drawing on recent psychological research, he argues that this Hebrew Bible text associates the meaning of life with various types of suffering in life. Keefer here situates Ecclesiastes within its ...

The text of the Hebrew Bible - whose 24 books make up what Christians call the Old Testament - remained in flux until the early Middle Ages, when Jewish scholars known as Masoretes began to create ...

Christians refer to them as the Old Testament. The text of the Hebrew Bible remained in flux until the early Middle Ages, when Jewish scholars known as Masoretes began to create a body of notes ...