Every year, a raft of new haggadahs promise to enliven your Passover seder. And every year, I select some for a roundup of ...

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The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.

A modern ear often hears “Jesus Christ” the way it hears a first name and a surname. The ancient world did not. In the first ...

The world’s oldest complete Hebrew Bible, the Codex Sassoon, recently unveiled at the Anu–Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, carries a direct connection to India through its namesake, David ...

The inky wretch never teased me about anything, but he did think it was funny when I decided to read the Bible straight through. "It's not Jane Austen," he told me.

God's personal name appears 6,823 times in Scripture. A new book explores what it means — and why it still matters ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: When was the dawn of writing? Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia seem to answer that question in the sense that symbols represent sounds, ...

The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...