The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

In the Bible's Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant is linked to several miracles, such as protecting the Israelites from poisonous animals during their Exodus out of Egypt, stopping the flow of the ...

THE ROTH CENTER for Jewish Life in Hanover is home to a Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust and serves to warn us of the ...

Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch had the help of 12 other Catholic biblical scholars to gather and compose the commentary on the books of the Old Testament alone.

A man set himself on fire in front of the Grand Synagogue in the Tunisian capital and was killed by police, the Interior Ministry said. A police officer and a ...

There is a consensus today that most everyone is OK no matter what they do, say or think. The Old Testament prophets ...

The first is called the liturgy of the Word and the second the Eucharistic liturgy. In the first part a passage from the ...

Faster, cheaper printing meant more books and more readers – and that brought ... which means they predate by at least eight centuries the oldest previously known Hebrew text of the Old Testament.

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

It can trace the history of an entire family, even an entire portion of the Jewish people. When that object is returned to regular religious use, it symbolizes the eternal vitality of Judaism. So it ...

Greene and his family moved to when he was 7 years old. “My parents joined the temple. I joined the temple. My bar mitzvah there. I went to Hebrew school there. I was confirmed there.