Chagall worked obsessively on the series The Bible, even going to Amsterdam to carefully study biblical paintings by Rembrandt and El Greco and to examine the extremes in religi ...

It’s important to remember, though, that the first pope in history, St. Peter, did come from the region now known as Israel. St. Peter was a Jewish fisherman from Galilee—modern-day northern ...

Discovering the ways her great-grandfather’s rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, “Melting Point.” ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... Swathed in Arab robes, Burckhardt had to keep his excitement to himself.

With his belted white flannel Dominican robe ... written in archaic Hebrew—that is, in Phoenician-characters; and it should also be mentioned that fragments of various Biblical books among ...

The imagery of “red” and “honey” returns in Song of Songs attributed to King Solomon: “Your red lips, my bride, drip sweet golden-orange honey from the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue.

A new study has uncovered hidden social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms by analyzing personal names from archaeological ...

As the name suggests, the Hebrew Bible is written, mostly, in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What ...

Koller is packing up from New York City, where he has taught at Yeshiva University, specializing in Hebrew from biblical to medieval texts, since earning his doctorate there in 2009. According to ...

Ohio with self-identifying Hebrew Israelites, I was asked that for the second session – the following week – we restrict our debate on this particular topic only to Biblical citation.

“This showcases there are yet more examples of these animals, specifically, forms that were active marine predators, filling in more of the picture of how this ancient marine ecosystem ...