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A new exhibit at the Museum of the Bible displays one of the oldest Jewish books discovered in Afghanistan, which contains ...

When Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff planted a pomegranate tree outside the vice president’s ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

On the anti-Zionist left, the academic framing “settler colonialism” gained wide currency to describe and deride Zionism, ...

After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for developing the ...

In Luke 10:27 and Mark 12:30, we notice that both passages use a fourfold description to explain how we are to love God: Heart, soul, strength, and mind. In the Old Testament we find a similar command ...

This article is part of a series of articles produced by local LGBTQ+ publications celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. Philad ...

Like many Jewish rituals and traditions, from lighting Friday night candles to hosting Passover seders, Sukkot is primarily celebrated in the home – or rather, in the yard. Translated as the “Festival ...

(Sifre on Deuteronomy piska 56) As the centuries pass, many words change their meaning; adding new meanings to the old ... for many centuries in the dozens of books that make up the Hebrew Bible and ...

In 1983, biblical scholar Robert Gundry was ousted from the Evangelical Theological Society. Gundry, in his lengthy ...

Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.