He has been a God who is the very definition of love. He is faithful, and He is compassionate. This is the God of the Hebrew Bible, of the Old Testament. And this is the God of the New.

Park shows how the biblical narratives suggest that love might be its own entity, perhaps even one that has authority over God. In the Hebrew Bible, Park demonstrates, love is “fraught and complicated ...

Are we sinners in the hands of an angry God as the famous sermon by Early American Protestant preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards would have it? Or are we children of a loving God? This week ...

as the God who is revealed in the world as a God of redemption, is associated with love and compassion. The Hebrew term judgment (דין), that is used in connection with Elohim, is sometimes ...

How can we really know someone if we don’t know their face? Faithful Judeo-Christians want to know God. We seek his blessings, love, guidance, protection, and mercy. Millions of believers ...

Isaiah and Jesus share their versions of God’s love song to a vineyard ... the slightest manipulation of a single consonant in the Hebrew word to move from “justice” to “injustice.” ...

a God of universal love. The Hebrew Bible—the “Old Testament”—chronicled a God who was sometimes belligerent (espousing the slaughter of infidels), unabashedly nationalist (pro-Israel ...

The Hebrew mi ya’achilenu basar ... Rather than imagining God as a mother figure, these texts focus on how one’s love for God is akin to one’s love for one’s mother. Human love for a mother then ...

a word that comes from the Hebrew for womb and suggests God’s intimate attachment to us; kindness, sometimes translated “steadfast love,” which indicates the tenacity of God’s commitment ...