Exodus recounts God directing Moses, aided by Aaron, to oppose Pharoah and liberate the Israelites from bondage? Very male, ...

Rashi speculated that the single frog was a proliferating piñata of an amphibian. When struck in anger, the frog exploded ...

So Hurston started reading ancient sources ... This was certainly one of Hurston’s intentions. She has her Hebrew characters speak in Southern dialect, for instance, and her Moses is a conjure ...

Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You could write them more quickly than their majuscule count ...

When he sings an ancient Yemenite Hebrew prayer for his college classmates ... The actor channels Meredith frequently in “Out of Character”: She’s that stiff, sour, voluble tyrant standing ...

Avni-Levy will receive NIS 180,000 ($50,000) and his novel will be translated into Arabic and another language of his ...

A remarkable discovery in the Judean Desert has revealed a scandalous case of tax fraud and forgery dating back nearly 1,900 years. Hidden for centuries, an ancient Greek papyrus has provided ...

Coming alongside the “little ones” mangled in this sordid world is not merely an act of moral heroism. It is participation in ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...

But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome’s famous bloodsport ... Schiffman is a professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies focused on the Dead Sea ...

(REVIEW) Christianity’s evolution, we are told in this densely packed, deeply analytical history of the faith’s early centuries, “involves a large cast of characters ... Fredriksen begins “Ancient ...