The Western elites have told themselves, “Get rid of biblical religion, and we can have a better world, a world of conscience ...

These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

But with the Bible, the stakes go up. When we say that something is “in the Bible,” what do we mean? Is it the exact ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

He's also a professor of Bible studies and the academic dean at Detroit's Ecumenical Theological Seminary. "Too often," he ...

An LGBTQ+ pastor insists that the Christian right gets it wrong, arguing that the Bible is a queer-friendly text.

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

The apple has been associated with the pivotal Biblical scene for generations, but is this a case of mistaken identity?