Christianity began as a Jewish movement, deeply connected to Jewish teachings. However, as it spread, theological and ...

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

The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

Performance arts are often based on traditions and narratives that have inspired human history throughout the ages. It is no ...

Several passages in the New Testament of the Bible tell of Jesus Christ's time in the ancient city of Chorazin, Israel, where ...

“Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 47.4 (2023): 473-89. "Roman and Jewish Food Customs." In ...

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chang ruled that the Trump administration's policy might infringe on religious freedoms.

Some suspect that the Gospel writers located Jesus’ Nativity in Bethlehem to tie the Galilean peasant to the Judaean city prophesied in the Old Testament ... after the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem ...

The predominantly Negro areas of Harlem and Brooklyn’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville were once solidly Jewish; now the Jewish ... freedom as portrayed in the Old Testament. Yet, like many conservative ...

I wrote a column that grappled with hope amid a world facing dark times. One of the things on my mind was starving children in Gaza. The column wasn't specifically about Gaza or the Middle East. It ...