Hebrew is not merely another language. It’s the heartbeat of our culture, our connection to Israel, and our link to a shared ...

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 ...

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….” ...

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

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

In “The Bible: A Global History,” Bruce Gordon chronicles the Christian Bible’s progression from a collection of ancient Hebrew and Greek texts—our word “Bible” is derived from the Greek biblia, ...

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

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.

A fire was ignited one year ago on October 7, when Hamas, backed by Iran, invaded Israel and massacred over 1,200 Israeli men ...