Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the history of these ancient texts and their significance for early Christians and their Jewish contemporaries. Mark Hamilton is currently writing a PhD ...

He lives with his wife in Jerusalem, and he serves as chair of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. In his book, Kugel explains his theory of the ...

First it declares that “the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one ... The origin of Old Testament texts and the history of the formation of the canon have been the subject of important ...

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered.

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

Rozenberg points to and interprets many specific stories in the Torah as evidence of psychedelic use throughout Jewish history ... something that those in ancient times may have also experienced.

New York educational institutions have seen more than a year of anti-Israel activists campaigning to condition Jewish identity in public life — whether pressuring their Jewish peers to denounce ...

Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...