The Protestant Bible is a compilation of 66 books. Many people mistakenly think these Bible books appear in the order of ...

In my recent book on early Israel I characterize ... Dever: The portrait of Israelite religion in the Hebrew Bible is the ideal, the ideal in the minds of those few who wrote the Bible—the ...

The miraculous movement of the waters inspires the faith of the survivors — the Israelites on the other side of the shore in ...

Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of ... of them may be very ancient indeed. The books of Psalms, for instance, contains many hymns from Israelite temple worship from the monarchic ...

By reading the word וַיֵּצֵא in Jonah 4:5 as being in the pluperfect, Eliezer of Beaugency justifies Jonah’s objection to God’s forgiveness of Nineveh as occurring before God pardoned the inhabitants ...

By Corina Knoll He was a follower of the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which has expressed hostility to Jews, officials said. By James Barron, Michael Gold and Ali Watkins A suspect in ...

That highest of holy days, Yom Kippur, is nowadays focused on fasting, prayer, and spiritual introspection. But in ancient times it was actually about a goat sent down to fallen angels.

The Hebrew Bible, the primary source for the history of Judaism, is a text composed centuries after the Prophet Moses.

The Torah portion for this week, Ha’azinu, is rather short – totaling just 52 verses. According to tradition, the poem which ...

The 12 tribes of Israel are introduced in the book of Genesis ... After all, the Hebrew Bible repeatedly places the tribes ...

Jigoulov, Vadim 2007. The Phoenician City-states of Tyre and Sidon in Ancient Jewish Texts. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, Vol. 21, Issue. 1, p. 73. ÖZKIRIMLI, UMUT and GROSBY, STEVEN 2007 ...