Archaeologists have recently uncovered significant findings in Zanoah, a location mentioned in the Old Testament, shedding ...

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The Promised Land also makes some more obscure biblical details memorable, such as when Oholiab (Ash Kahn)—a specialist in ...

Thanks for joining our discussion about a topic that “called” me after I heard a New Testament verse read in church last Sunday. Written by St. Paul, the verse referenced a miraculous incident that ...

Jewish identity is often understood through the lens of rituals that were developed and practiced primarily by men. This understanding risks placing women on the margins of Jewish life. Narratives in ...

Those popping their heads into synagogue on the 17th of Tammuz – the fast day which falls this year on Tuesday, July 23 – will catch the Torah reading depicting the denouement of the ancient ...

The Bible and the later Jewish commentary contain many concepts, words, symbols that sing to each other across distance and time. A symbol, a phrase, an image from an earlier text may interact with a ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...