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What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

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

Isaiah is most known for his four Servant Songs. The prophet foresees God’s coming and growing up as a man and becoming the ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...

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

Biblical texts shaped the development of Western civilization and steadily made advances into societies formerly resistant to ...

Institution set to comply with literary icon's request to keep much of his archive out of public sight for up to 10 years, ...

The Lord said to Moses, that the tenth day of this seventh month [Tishrei] is the Day of Atonement…. Do not do any work on that day…. This is a lasting ordinance for generations to come….” ...

‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” Things haven’t worked ...

During the weeklong Sukkot holiday, which this year starts at sundown on Oct. 16 and runs through Oct. 23, Jews erect festive booths in keeping with a biblical commandment.

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