I’m sitting at the dining room table doing my Spanish homework while my mother sits across from me, tackling a daunting task: studying for her bat mitzvah. This scene is part of our weekly routine in ...

State officials have proposed an expansive list of books and stories that could become required reading. The list includes excerpts from the Bible but no other major religious works. (Patrick Herrera/ ...

An international project has uncovered millions of ancient DNA 'switches' that have been regulating plant genes for up to 300 million years - a ...

Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts (IVP Books, 2019) writes: New Testament scholar Preston Sprinkle has created quite a stir with his new book, From Genesis to Junia: An Honest Search for What the ...

The sling bullet found in 2025 at Hippos is the first inscribed bullet to be discovered at the site in 26 years of ...

Santa Monica students at Lincoln Middle School made challah bread while hearing Holocaust survivor stories from twin sisters ...

The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew ...

Both traditions inherited a powerful idea from the Hebrew scriptures - the notion that the ancient Israelites were God’s chosen people.

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He worked with a team for 34 years to translate both the Old and New Testament, an accomplishment that prompted the response: ‘Now God speaks my language!’ ...

A new study reveals how the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism influenced early Judaism during the Achaemenid Empire.

Netanyahu has been repeatedly addressing the Iranians, reminding them of their ancient ties with the Jews and encouraging them to overthrow the Shia theocracy.