Most readers think Leviticus is about dull things: priests and their sacrificial offerings, blood taboos and bodily fluids, the holiness code. In her new book, Avivah Zornberg shows that there is more ...

Kosher eating, rooted in Jewish tradition, is surrounded by myths and misunderstandings. From ingredient selection to food ...

Poetry (Writings), and Prophets.Below is a list of the Old Testament books, categorized for a better understanding.

Next week, the first full moon since the Harvest Moon will fill the sky for three days. This moon, known as the “Hunter’s ...

Klingbeil, Gerald A. 2009. Between the Traditional and the Innovative: Ezra‐Nehemiah in Current Research. Religion Compass, Vol. 3, Issue. 2, p. 182.

Sukkahs symbolize the structures that the Israelites lived in during their wilderness journey. But some rabbis envision them ...

If you need a reference, check out Leviticus 19:34: The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; ...

With the elections at hand and Christians sharing differing views about their vote, or not voting, we offer a few thoughts.

Not only are the four kinds and the tabernacle different in character; they are even seemingly opposed to one another. The four kinds and the rituals associated with them are about rain.

Anyway, he eyed me with all the insouciance of a 22-year-old with little more than a golden peach-fuzz of down on his pert ...

He added that the rules acted "like a kind of religion, detailed rituals you just obeyed, Leviticus like in the ... The most contrition both in the book and in the interview comes on how he ...

After a year hunting its most wanted target in Hamas’s tunnels beneath Gaza, it appears Israel claimed its quarry during a ...