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

In my recent book on early Israel I characterize the ... but there is a sort of egalitarianism in the Hebrew Bible: "Every man under his own fig tree, equal in the eyes of Yahweh." ...

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 ...

a curator at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, recalls. The museum had recently acquired the manuscript — a rare Jewish prayer book — believing it to be part of the famous Cairo Geniza ...

Two details from the book of Deuteronomy provide the key. The first has to do with the liberation of slaves: If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is sold to you, they shall serve for you for six ...

Protestants, following the tradition of the Pharisaic Jews, accept the shorter Hebrew Canon, even though the Jews also reject the NT Books. The main problem is that the Bible does not define itself.

found only here and in the Noah narrative in the whole Hebrew Bible), and his as-yet unnamed sister stations herself by Nile River (2:4) to learn what will happen next, and, as it transpires ...