Jesus prayed among the olive trees in the garden of Gethsemane on his last night before the crucifixion, according to the ...

Ancient seal from seventh century BCE with Hebrew writing. Credit: Wikipedia Commons, public domain The Greek alphabet has a long and fascinating history. In fact, its origin goes right back to one of ...

Abstract: Ancient texts are unique evidence providing a glimpse into the thoughts, day-to-day life, and culture of people of long-gone eras. Paleography, the study of writing, aims at documenting the ...

Qumran scrolls unveil ancient Hebrew biblical texts and religious belief A Bedouin shepherd found the first scrolls in the Dead Sea caves back Artifacts suggest the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Chapel Haven Judaism Club coordinator Rachel McEachern, at Wednesday’s seder. Credit: Allan Appel ...

What is the meaning of the egg? What is the meaning of the sprig of parsley? Of the flat bread called matzah? What is a symbol? In many ways the talky Passover seder — basically a Socratic-style ...

Stained glass depiction of Aaron with the scapegoat performing an ancient Hebrew custom from the Lincoln Cathedral. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 2.0 The word “scapegoat” is an expression that we ...

The discovery of an ancient Hebrew tombstone in southern India dating back to the 13th century could potentially unveil a forgotten Jewish community within the region. The tombstone was discovered on ...

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In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd stumbled upon the first part of a treasure trove of 15,000 ancient Jewish texts, in a cave just a stone’s throw from the shores of the Dead Sea. The 2,000-year-old texts – ...

Artificial Intelligence is going Biblical. That’s the message emanating from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), which is using state-of-the-art AI to decipher ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts ...