The parable of the rich fool falls into the second category. It’s a shorter parable and has a message that offends those of us who prize individuality and doing what we like with our possessions.

What does "seventy times seven" mean? Here's how it fits into the Bible’s teachings about sin, repentance, forgiveness, and rebuke.

The question “how old was Noah when he died?” is one of those classic Bible trivia questions, right up there with “how old was Methuselah?”

Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve, born after his brother Cain had killed Abel. When Seth was born, Eve said, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel” (Genesis 4:26).

Unless you were that Sunday School student who liked looking up Bible stories that no one mentions, you probably never asked “is cannibalism in the Bible?”

Salome probably doesn’t top your list of biblical characters. The New Testament mentions one woman with that name, and other documents indicate another, more well-known, woman in the New Testament also had that name.