A rare 14th-century ornate Hebrew Bible written during the golden age of Spain will be put on public display after being sold for $6.9m (£5.3m). The Bible, written by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312AD ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

There are many contradictions within the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses), the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic literature. In the continuation, I will give only one example of contradiction – of what in my ...

A 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible featuring Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic styles, is being sold in September at Sotheby’s by Jacqui Safra, heir of a Syrian Lebanese-Swiss banking ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

Yosef S. Razin in an article in the Times of Israel titled “Avraham: Guilt and Faith in the Fiery Furnace” November 5, 2020 says: “Abraham in the fiery furnace, a well known story though it does not ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical ...

RNS — President Barack Obama used a Bible belonging to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim member of Congress, took the oath of office on the Quran. And on ...

Eniye Kanari looks back at her life ten years ago and says everything around her was falling apart. At that time, her marriage was unstable, and even though her friends constantly advised her to seek ...