The Talmud’s discussion of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, also mentions a special New Year just for trees. This Jewish Arbor Day, called Tu B’Shvat, falls on the 15th of the Hebrew month of ...

YHWH...the God of the Israelites in the Hebrew Bible, and you shall have no other gods before him. But did some ancient Israelites worship another god, Asherah? Archaeological evidence suggests that ...

Tu B’Shevat – known as the “New Year of the Trees” – is a day to celebrate the planet that has been bestowed upon us. It ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...

The only other exemplar is when authorities outlaw biblical prayer, as illustrated in Daniel 6. In this passage, the king’s ...

In a groundbreaking display of Jewish unity and scholarship, the first-ever European Jewish Youth Bible Quiz took place in ...

The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

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Around the world, millions of Christians see the Bible as the divine word of God - but who actually put pen to paper?

American Jewish leaders don’t just insist on Israel’s right to exist. They insist on its right to exist as a Jewish state.