Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, ...

Many of the so-called prophesies of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures are deliberate mistranslations. Here are two of them. In an article well worth reading, the late Christopher Hitchens makes the ...

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(RNS) A new Catholic translation of the Bible tweaks an Old Testament text -- Isaiah 7:14 -- that many Christians consider a prophecy about Jesus’ birth. So, why did they alter a 2,745-year-old ...

An overview of the historical background and theology of Isaiah to help you develop your sermon series and apply it to your hearers. Christians in the twenty-first century face challenges both like ...

Here again, the word betula by itself does not seem to be enough to indicate virginity, since the narrator specifies that no man had known her. But further down in the chapter, in vv. 42-43, when the ...

Mary Elizabeth Sperry knows it’s time to hang the Christmas lights when the phone calls and emails about Isaiah 7:14 start to arrive. Sperry is the point person for questions about the New American ...