I think there is a kind of primitive democracy in early Israel, which is enshrined in the vision of the good life in the Hebrew Bible. Q: And these settlements grow, right? Dever: Yes. These ...

In this context, it offers an explanation for Israel's poor condition and implicitly a reason to hope for the future. Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets (Isaiah ...

Yet the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation of love: the love of a man for a woman, the love of any human ...

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...

That’s according to local news reports and Jewish leaders in Indianapolis, after police arrested Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, Saturday for her attack on a building belonging to a Hebrew Israelite sect ...

(JTA) — The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a group of African-Americans living in Israel who believed they were descendants of the biblical tribe of Judah, has died.

Here’s how it works. A biblical site visited by the kings of Israel, according to the Hebrew Bible, has been identified in Jordan, researchers claim. The Iron Age site, known as Mahanaim ...