Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical answer.

Brown reportedly noticed an unnatural section of rock on a cliff face, which gave way to a cave “that curved downward into ...

The school is adjacent to the Ibrahimi Mosque, which is situated above the Cave of the Patriarchs, a multifaith holy place that marks the traditional burial site of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and ...

For example, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2016 registered the Cave of the Patriarchs — the burial site of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives Sarah ...

Abraham (Abh-ram, High Father, precise Semitic equivalent of the Sancrit Dyaus-Pitar, the Greek Zeus, and the Latin Jupiter) is the Heaven-Father, originally the sky, but, according to common use ...

“They call Hebron ‘Al-Khalil,’ and the Cave ... which in 2016 registered the Cave of the Patriarchs—the resting place of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives Sarah, ... “The burial ...

WOODCUT BY Gustave Doré depicting the burial of Sarah in the Cave of the Patriarchs ... We can see this through the relationship with Abraham and Sarah – both were equal parties to the covenant ...

For instance, formal burial customs began to appear around 110,000 years ago in Israel for the first time worldwide, likely as a result of intensified social interactions. A striking discovery at ...