The American experiment, inspired by Locke’s writings, would function in the model of Biblical Israel, balancing the gift of human rationality with belief in the grace of Heaven.

An important early work of biblical commentary, the Pesikta de Rav Kahana, will be published by the Jewish Theological Seminary, thus making it available to Bible scholars in its original form after ...

The very first words found in Gordon Wenham’s 1979 NICOT commentary on Leviticus are these: “Leviticus used to ...

ECHOES OF SEPHARAD. Late 15th Century Rabbi Eliezer Between Híjar and Lisbon: Reopening the Case of a Renaissance Hebrew ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Baruch A. Levine, a Bible scholar who wrote the two-volume Anchor Bible commentary on the book of Numbers and the Jewish Publication Society commentary on Leviticus, ...

American neoconservative theorist and writer Norman Podhoretz at home in New York City. (Photo by David Howells/Corbis via Getty Images) https://jewishjournal.com/wp ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Rabbi Moishe Kievman discusses the Jewish act of burial and why, as a rabbi, he feels that is the best option for Jewish ...

At a recent press conference in Houston, a team of archaeologists announced a startling new find. They discovered an inscribed tablet from ancient Israel, well over 3,000 years old, that they say ...