Bible
Possibly the third largest city in ancient Judah.
An interview with the man who wrote the book on the Aleppo Codex.
A new museum in Israel strives to spread knowledge about the wildlife that once existed in the land and is discussed in the Bible. Orit. . .
Any Catholic edition of the Bible contains a text known as “Additions to Esther.” Based on an ancient version of the Book of Esther, and. . .
Queen Esther has been criticized, most notably by feminists, for her alleged passivity, deviousness, and reliance on her beauty alone. Michael V. Fox argues that. . .
The hibernation of the groundhog holds an important place in American folklore; much less well-known is its possible appearance in rabbinic folklore. According to one. . .
There are a few references to Satan in the Hebrew Bible, but the figure they describe bears little relation to that found in the New. . .
Last year, archaeologists discovered lumps of clay (known as bullae) made for sealing documents in Khirbet Summeily in the Negev. Their presence suggests. . .
The Hebrew Bible generally refers to Jews by some variation of the word Israel. (The word Jew does not appear as such until the later. . .
Benny Lau, a Jerusalem-based rabbi, has created a new website aimed at making the Hebrew Bible accessible to Israelis of all political and religious persuasions,. . .
At the beginning of Exodus, two Hebrew midwives refuse Pharaoh’s instructions to murder Israelite infant males. Jonathan Sacks explores this act of heroism and its. . .
In a current exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a stone slab bears an inscription that mentions the “House of David” as the ruling. . .
In the Hebrew Bible, God curses Cain after he kills Abel, and tells the Israelites that terrible curses will befall them if they do not. . .
Few biblical books have engendered as much analysis or philosophical discussion as the story of Job. A recent “biography” of the title character, by Mark. . .