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“Death penalty in keeping with principles of the Bible” (Reading Eagle, June 4), which asserts that the Hebrew Bible generally supports capital punishment, brings to mind comedian Lewis Black’s advice ...

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...

At a recent press conference in Houston, a team of archaeologists announced a startling new find. They discovered an inscribed tablet from ancient Israel, well over 3,000 years old, that they say ...