Bible

New York’s Museum of Biblical Art is closing, because it’s “too religious.”

Naomi Schaefer Riley
May 15 2015 12:01AM

Did the scribes of the Dead Sea scrolls insert their own ideas into the texts?

Shani Tzoref
May 13 2015 12:01AM

“Reading the Bible was a kind of escape from Russia.”

Serge Frolov
May 6 2015 12:01AM

An interview discussing the most recent archaeological discoveries in Israel.

Hershel Shanks
April 24 2015 12:01AM

A strange book based on several ancient Jewish texts.

Simon J. Joseph
March 20 2015 12:01AM

How new technology is being used to understand the scrolls.

Naomi Pfefferman
March 13 2015 12:01AM

Possibly the third largest city in ancient Judah.

Robin Ngo
March 11 2015 12:01AM

An interview with the man who wrote the book on the Aleppo Codex.

March 10 2015 12:01AM

A new museum in Israel strives to spread knowledge about the wildlife that once existed in the land and is discussed in the Bible. Orit. . .

Orit Arfa
March 6 2015 12:01AM

Any Catholic edition of the Bible contains a text known as “Additions to Esther.” Based on an ancient version of the Book of Esther, and. . .

Aaron Koller
March 5 2015 12:01AM

Queen Esther has been criticized, most notably by feminists, for her alleged passivity, deviousness, and reliance on her beauty alone. Michael V. Fox argues that. . .

Michael V. Fox
Feb. 27 2015 12:01AM

The hibernation of the groundhog holds an important place in American folklore; much less well-known is its possible appearance in rabbinic folklore. According to one. . .

Natan Slifkin
Feb. 2 2015 12:01AM

There are a few references to Satan in the Hebrew Bible, but the figure they describe bears little relation to that found in the New. . .

Philip Jenkins
Jan. 20 2015 12:01AM

Last year, archaeologists discovered lumps of clay (known as bullae) made for sealing documents in Khirbet Summeily in the Negev. Their presence suggests. . .

James Hardin, Christopher Rollston and and Jeffrey Blakely
Jan. 15 2015 12:01AM