After a number of side trips and expeditions into esoteric topics like the destruction of rare guitars, I’m finally getting back to my promised exploration of the concept of sacrifice as it unfolds in ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...

This biblical book of sayings and advice is full of wisdom. The Book of Proverbs is one of the most quoted books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). Comprising the second book in the Ketuvim (or Writings) ...

Messianic Judaism, (a branch of which is “Jews for Jesus”) is a religious group that has tried to straddle the line between Judaism and Christianity. According to this group, Jesus, or Yeshuain ...

A rare 14th-century ornate Hebrew Bible written during the golden age of Spain will be put on public display after being sold for $6.9m (£5.3m). The Bible, written by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312AD ...

After two years of pondering how to unlock the basic meaning of Hebrew Scripture, this is how far I’ve come. Part 1: my assumptions. Let’s begin with a few sentences in lay-philosophical terms about ...

Are we sinners in the hands of an angry God as the famous sermon by Early American Protestant preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards would have it? Or are we children of a loving God? This week’s ...

Some argue that inherent human rights are implicated in a perverse individualism correlative of liberal social orders, and thus have no place in an understanding of justice as right order. The recent ...