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 ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

Contrary to Christian belief the Binding of Isaac is not a prophecy for human sacrifice or crucifixion, which in Jewish Law is an abomination. If one reads a few verses below the Hebrew scriptures, ...

This biblical book of sayings and advice is full of wisdom. The Book of Proverbs is one of the most quoted books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). Comprising the second book in the Ketuvim (or Writings) ...

Some argue that inherent human rights are implicated in a perverse individualism correlative of liberal social orders, and thus have no place in an understanding of justice as right order. The recent ...

St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church's adult education program will offer a course next month exploring the Hebrew scriptures from a modern, scholarly perspective. The four-session ...

After two years of pondering how to unlock the basic meaning of Hebrew Scripture, this is how far I’ve come. Part 1: my assumptions. Let’s begin with a few sentences in lay-philosophical terms about ...

Professor Gershon Galil of the department of biblical studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign), and has ...