Chosen by Andrew Abernethy, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, coeditor of “The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness,” and author of “Savoring Scripture: A Six-Step Guide to ...

The minor prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are post-exilic, roughly contemporary with Ezra and Nehemiah, in the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem around 450 years before the birth of Jesus.

Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of several new sets of Dead Sea Scrolls— ancient fragments of biblical text that have, for the past 70 years, contributed to scholars ...