Netflix ’s new feature Mary - a biblical epic about the mother of Jesus - is facing backlash for what some are calling ...

Popular imagination associates the biblical “Satan” with the diabolical being also called “the Devil” in the New Testament.

Our last thoughts before sleep and our first thoughts upon waking have a powerful impact on our minds. This may be why ...

A linguistic debate between the New York Times and Texas Monthly over the word “y’all” overlooked a “y’all” scholar right ...

The final book in the Old Testament, the last book in the Hebrew Neviim or Prophets, is the book of Malachi. In Hebrew, the word comes from a word meaning “messenger,” which points to Malachi as a ...

In 1979 the Oriental Institute at Baroda published a paper entitled The Hebrews belong to a branch of Vedic Aryans This was a followup to a previous article on the same topic published by the same aut ...

The paradox of a slim book is that it can be dense. The weight of the words feels more significant, heavier, when there are ...

Stories traditionally have a beginning, a middle and an end. Stories about people, on the other hand, don’t always have an ...

Was Rashi correct in thinking Jacob was righteous? Some might argue that, in many ways, he was like other humans. He had good and bad points. He made mistakes, as we all do. But generally speaking, he ...

The explanation of Yaakov’s vision can provide much poignancy vis-a-vis a future episode in Yaakov’s life–namely ...

Edan Alexander of New Jersey has been held captive more than 422 days. In a video, Edan appears gaunt and under distress as ...

The occasional boom of a bass drum punctuates the Mass at St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center on the Northwest Side, signaling ...