How is Hanukkah celebrated? Learn the history of the most common Hanukkah traditions that make up the Festival of Lights.

Accepting and Excepting will appeal to scholars of Jewish philosophy, theologians of religion, as well as all people ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They ...

Around 50 years later, a prophet of great legend and lore appeared among the Ten Tribes of Israel. Elijah was a desert wander who only wore animal skins and a belt. Elijah arranged a smackdown on Mt.

New archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Megiddo in northern Israel — the location of the final Battle of Armageddon in the Book of Revelation — supports the biblical story of an Israelite ...

Some were heretics and others heroes, but these royal women all took center stage in some of the most important stories in the Old Testament. Bathsheba, Jezebel, Athaliah, and Esther are all ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Some 2,600 years ago, soldiers stationed at a modest military outpost on the southern border of the Kingdom of Judah ...

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The Bible contains various names for God, each of which represents a unique way through which God reveals Himself to humanity. The most used names for God throughout Scripture are: Elohim, Adonai, El ...