The Bible,” says Bruce Gordon, “is a book in exile, a refugee that has washed up on many shores.” And this really admirable volume pursues the question of how “a book of many different forms” actually ...
Muslims as well as Christians consider her to be holy above all women, and her name “Maryam” appears more often in the Koran than “Mary” does in the Bible. In the New Testament Mary speaks ...
Right-wing Christians are very selective about the Bible passages they quote – and even more so about which lives are deemed sacred, writes scholar Katie Edwards ...