Michael Reads the Bible

Italian, Late 17th-Early 18th Century.  Daniel in the Lion's Den with an angel bearing the prophet Habakkuk. I remember that, when I be...

The Book of Nahum is a short one – three straightforward chapters in two pages – so I think we can sort it out pretty quickly.  Keep in mind...

In the course of my obviously inadequate religious education, I’d occasionally ask why the Old Testament was still kept in the Christian Bib...

Jan van Eyck, Micah, from the Ghent altarpiece, 1432.   It has been not quite two years since the last entry in this enterprise, which was...

Tucked incongruously among the angry denunciations of the other prophets, the Book of Jonah is a charming, upbeat tale of divine compassio...

Melozzo da Forlì,“Obadiah” in the Sacristy of St. Mark, ca. 1477 , as snaffled without so much as a how-do-you-do from another guy's B...

Amos (on left), with Nahum, Ezekiel, and Daniel.  Detail of mural by John Singer Sargent, Boston Public Library. Amos is another book of...