Popular culture often shows angels as glowing humans with wings—but biblical texts paint a far stranger picture. This episode explores the Hebrew Bible’s depictions of heavenly beings, from humanoid ...

Using artificial intelligence and radiocarbon dating to determine the age of ancient manuscripts. Since their discovery, the Dead Sea Scrolls have significantly deepened our understanding of Jewish ...

The Hebrew scriptures are a treasure trove for a word nerd. Did you know, for example, that there is no separate word in ...

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

The letter is based on an understanding of the Hebrew Bible that is, forgive the pun, dead wrong. The Hebrew Bible is ...

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A multidisciplinary team of researchers is using artificial intelligence to unravel the authorship of the Hebrew Bible’s ...

Constitutional Limits. Under the “anti-commandeering” doctrine ( Printz v. United States, 1997; Murphy v. NCAA, 2018) Washington cannot compel states to enforce federal law—hence state-level sanctuary ...

Pittsburgh Regional Transit hopes to make bus and subway rides a little less sour, with a new pickle-themed campaign ...

By combining radiocarbon dating and artificial intelligence researchers are redating some of the fragments of the Dead Sea ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast ancient structure in one of the oldest urban centers on Earth. In Jerusalem’s City of ...

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