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.

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...

Versions of the Bible are translations of the Bible ... are a direct translation of the original Hebrew, while the rest are the Old Latin text. The Council of Trent made the Vulgate the official ...