An ancient seal bearing a Hebrew script and recovered in Jerusalem may have belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. The seal may be the earliest historical evidence relating to the holy man, who was ...

In his first of three annual public lectures at Boston University, professor Elie Wiesel focused on how the prophecies of Ezekiel relate to today’s generations and the values society encompasses.

The Assyrian castle and a tent leading to the underground tunnels in the Eğil district of Diyarbakır province, southeastern Turkey, Jan. 18, 2021. (AA) In the southeastern Turkish province of ...

2,700 years ago, someone carved a message to the ancient king Esarhaddon in a tunnel under a tomb. The message remained sealed away, unseen and undocumented by archaeologists, until the '80s and '90s.

James Kugel has spent his entire scholarly career studying the Bible, but some very basic questions about it still obsess him. What was it about the minds of ancient Israelites that allowed them to ...

The United States began as an idea. At its founding, its reason for being was freedom from tyranny and the freedom to vote. These freedoms later expanded to include freedom of religion, freedom from ...