In his new book, Hornkohl maintains that the Torah displays the earliest linguistic profile of any of the books of the Hebrew ...

Sandra first gained popularity in the 1930s, becoming a top-20 girl name for baby boomers from 1946 to 1954 and a top-10 name ...

The Bible generally urges that punishment not be inflicted without a trial, but Pinhas faced a brazen violation of the ...

The 7th century C.E. Arab and Arabized conquerors later had the audacity, as is occurring right up to present times, to ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

At Sinai, after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21–22), he brought words of God to his people. Moses brought down the ...

Israel's theological narratives fuel the Gaza war, while Palestinians fight every day for truth, their rights and survival ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was founded in 1918, 30 years before the state of Israel itself was established. It is the second oldest institution in the country, and is known as HUJI. It counts ...

Bible lands: their modern customs and manners illustrative of Scripture. by Van-Lennep, Henry John, 1815-1889.

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...