What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Next, we turn to the Tower of Babel, another great Hebrew Bible story with a lesson for humanity: God rules over and slaps us ...

In a new book, “Holiness and Society,” the Israeli scholar Ronen Shoval seeks to understand the philosophical implications of the phrase and its contemporary resonance.

Why did Jesus tell people to make offerings in the Temple? Why did Paul call himself a Pharisee? The Bible’s answer might ...

UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.

The Book of Acts in the Bible is, primarily, a history of the founding of the Christian church. It is in Acts, for example, ...

It happened some decades ago, when Elie Wiesel stood up to then-President Ronald Reagan when he was about to visit the German ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

It’s when an individual begins to observe the laws of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, and then studies them to gain a deeper understanding. Perhaps this phrase could also ...

Protestants, following the tradition of the Pharisaic Jews, accept the shorter Hebrew Canon, even though the Jews also reject the NT Books. The main problem is that the Bible does not define itself.

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

Ludovic Mohamed Zahed is an Islamic scholar and cleric who is challenging conventional understandings of his faith and has written a new book about his journey as a gay imam.