Lots of readers accepted my challenge to explain Chapter 8 of Isaiah, which utterly flummoxed me. You sent me dozens (and dozens, and dozens, and dozens) of answers that were funny, smart, and ...

Most people think that since Jewish ancestors placed certain books in the Hebrew Bible, this means that they are significant in some way, and this way is clear to even the average reader. Nothing is ...

Say goodbye to the confused, vengeful, wild-eyed prophecies of the first half of the book. Isaiah has calmed down, offering hymns of praise rather than orgies of damnation. Chapter 40 is probably the ...

This extraordinary volume is among the first in a new series of commentaries from Eerdmans that invites attention to the history of church interpretation of the Bible in precritical modes. The editor ...

The recent discovery of potential archaeological evidence for the prophet Isaiah comes at a time when there is a still a lively debate over whether Isaiah wrote the whole book that bears his name.

Over 1,000 5th graders in the Grand Rapids Public School System received a free book from Michigan author Kelly Baptist this year courtesy of the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation. The book, ...

The man who is credited with founding the city of Jacksonville was “a pretty odd fellow,” says Tim Gilmore, a prolific Jacksonville author whose latest book is “The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the ...

As the camera zeroes in on a miniature nativity scene, the commander in chief recites Isaiah 9:6, the well-known Old Testament prophecy about the birth of Christ. "For Christians, we remember the ...

Literary London is buzzing with reactions to the harsh and patronizing review by A. N. Wilson in the Times Literary Supplement of a book with the title Enlightening, consisting of the letters from ...