It’s about inventing designs, such as the elaborate patterns woven into the Tabernacle’s curtains, the veils, and the ephod ...

Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Julius Caesar gave Jewish high priest Hyrcanus II ... Jews had a complex and rocky relationship with ancient Rome, which went through several iterations in its rise and fall, from the early ...

Even though Sunday is the first day of the week, its inclusion in the weekend implies that it lives in Saturday’s shadow.

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

At the time of 1 Macc, the land of Israel was caught in the crossfire of the ancient Greek empires ... Mattathias, a zealous Jewish priest, refuses to partake of the pagan sacrifice which is ...

The ancient Jewish world was much different from the ... was Samuel, the judge and priest" (Sir 46:13). The prophet Isaiah proclaimed, "Hear me, O coastlands, listen, o distant peoples.

BishopPaolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, calls the “Church of migrants” to embrace Christian hope in his ...

The solution they came up with is famously stated in the Declaration of Independence: “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” This revolutionary truth, combining human reason and divine revelation, ...