While researching this study, I found a lesson titled “The Most Powerful Prayers In The Bible” by Maricris Navales. Under the sub-head, “Applying the Bible Prayer to Your Daily Life,” she wrote, “This ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.

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Prayers are a particularly usable form of literature. And because they are composed by human beings to answer our most intimate needs, the stock of prayers always grows and changes. One scholar, for ...

Matthew 21:21 (RSV) And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and never doubt, . . . even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will be done.” ...

Shema Yisrael, or the Shema, is the central affirmation of Judaism. The prayer expresses belief in the singularity of God, that is, in God's oneness and incomparability. Though this opening verse is ...

God Bless Pope Leo XIV, who we pray will unite the world in Christ! Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of our mothers in this Bible study, we discuss three famous Jewish mothers whose miraculous babies ...