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Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...
To reconstruct the history of ancient Israel, scholars turn to archaeological excavations, the Hebrew Bible and other discovered texts.
The tale of the spies reveals itself to be a kind of Jewish archetype — one which echoes throughout Jewish history in ever new iterations with subtly evolving significance.
Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...
The Hebrew Bible, although filled with stories of the Kingdom of Israel, there is a lack of information about Israel. The prophet Amos confronted the High Priest Amaziah in the Beit El temple in ...
From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God ... The last edition of the Deuteronomistic History, the one in our Bible, comes from the sixth century BCE, ...
Excerpted from Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West, out today by Josh Hammer (© 2025). Used with permission from Radius Book Group, a division of ...
The modern Bible is the product of translations and interpretations that span centuries. But a true understanding of its meaning should take into account its origins in Jewish culture, according ...
Nahum Sarna, a scholar, author and educator whose book "Understanding Genesis" (1966) established him as a biblical authority who was also able to make academic research accessible to nonexperts ...
In the chronicle of Jewish biblical history, two expulsions stand out. In 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians forcibly removed the Jewish inhabitants of the northern kingdom of Israel and sent them into ...
A more than 1,000-year-old Hebrew bible known as the Codex Sassoon is being sold by Swiss investor and collector Jacqui Safra in May at Sotheby’s in New York for an estimated US$30 million to US ...