In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, the Trump administration’s representative in Israel, was cross-examined as to what Israel expects to gain from its various wars. Carlson asked ...

The Bible you are reading is an abridged version. Whether it is the Jewish Bible or the Catholic Bible or the Protestant Bible, and regardless of the language you are reading, the edition is an ...

For just four hours Sunday, a complete collection of Jewish holy books in scroll form will be on exhibit at Temple Israel, a conservative Jewish synagogue in Daytona Beach. It is the world’s only ...

The Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an celebrate the courage of a woman and her daughter from an ethnically marginalized class: Moses’ mother and sister. In a story that has inspired people across millennia, ...

For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...

(RNS) — Hebrew Bible scholar Marc Zvi Brettler learned years ago that it never hurts to ask. Talking to an acquaintance at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University last year, Brettler, a professor of ...

Translating a Bible has always been risky, and today the language of gender often fires up public opinion. Now entering the lists of controversy is a “gender-sensitive” English translation of ...

(JTA) — A conference of Jewish educators became first responders of sorts when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis had an emergency: The Jewish Democrat was about to be sworn in for a second term and he ...