In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

104. Louise — This moniker has English roots and means "famous warrior," so it's a strong name for a baby girl. 105. Ethel — ...

Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is Christianity’s most important holiday. [...] ...

When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me most ... Instead, the family, women especially, took care of the dead, washing and clothing the corpse in a ...

our earliest text of the Hebrew Bible—the so-called Masoretic text—is no more ancient than the ninth century of the Christian era; and that, before that, our main versions of Scripture are the ...

Workers remove handwritten notes placed between the ancient stones of the Western Wall ... only country to have revived a dead language and made it the national language. Hebrew had remained the ...

He was converting them into a novel when he died in 1982. “The writer inside of me,” he had confessed three years earlier, “is a thoroughly ancient Jew, while the man inside me wants to be thoroughly ...

There were many biblical words that translators and commentators mistranslated. Tzaraat was one of the many. It is mentioned in the 13th chapter of the fourth biblical portion of Leviticus, Tazri’a 12 ...

Typical Yom Ha’atzmaut foods include kebabs, chicken wings, boneless chicken thighs, steak, merguez (sausage) and the occasional lamb chop or arayes (a delicious grilled meat stuffed pita).

From the perspective of the Arabs, these people were foreigners who spoke strange languages, wore strange clothing, and — after 1917 ... where the Jewish religion and Hebrew language were born, and ...

A new study has uncovered hidden social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms by analyzing personal names from archaeological ...