Israel came out swinging at Swedish officials on Friday following the decision by Stockholm police to allow the Bible and Torah to be burned during a protest scheduled for this weekend outside the ...

Tens of millions of Christians believe in Original Sin. Tens of millions of Muslims reject Original Sin but do believe in God’s Fate over them. Jews do not believe in it either.

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The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

The story of Bilaam opens with the truce struck between two erstwhile warring nations, Moav and Midyan. Midyan was a neighbor of Moav and was also concerned that the Jews would invade. The surest way ...

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Sacks, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, is the author of a posthumous volume that is challenging Israel's top-selling ...

The Getty Museum has an impressive holding of illuminated Christian manuscripts, but it hasn't had any Hebrew texts in its collection until now. It's not for lack of trying, though. The Getty has been ...

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Q. I think the Torah is the teaching of the Jewish law. Does it come from the Old Testament? — T., Buffalo, N.Y. A. The Torah consists of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, ...