In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...
The desert peak upon which the Hebrew Bible says God gave the Torah to Moses. Mount Sinai is the desert peak upon which the Hebrew Bible says God gave the Torah to Moses and the Israelites. In the ...
In the Torah, as the Israelites journeyed through the wilderness, they constructed the mishkan — a portable sanctuary designed to create sacred space and foster connection with God. The mishkan, ...
Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the founder of the African Hebrew Israelites movement, died at age 75 on Dec. 27 in Israel. Born Ben Carter in Chicago in 1939, Ben-Israel said that some black Africans were ...