Look up any verse in the Bible and you will find examples of how the ideas expressed there are conveyed in other languages ...

Worldwide, birthdays were first acknowledged in ancient Egypt in 3000 BC, where the Pharaoh reveled in his birthday in a huge ...

the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible - a 2nd-century B.C. Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture. It was the "Bible" for the Greek-speaking Jews.

The Italian biblical commentator Ovadiah ben Yakov Sforno (1474-1549) writes: וידום אהרן, seeing he consoled himself after ...

Unfortunately, there are many instances of well-meaning, intelligent people misinterpreting the Bible. Sometimes, they did it intentionally to teach a lesson, and sometimes, they got it wrong. I will ...

As part of this launch, the “Orit” Beta Israel Torah scroll of the Ethiopian Jewish community, previously belonging to Kes ...

Pamela Nadler Emmerich — then a teenager from Montreal — arrived in Jerusalem for her freshman year at Hebrew University. ...

Canadian feminist author Margaret Atwood's work has long served as the inspiration for the American television adaptation The Handmaid's Tale, its first episode having been aired in 2017.

Indeed, the Church has accepted as inspired by God all the writings contained in the Hebrew Bible as well as those in the Greek Bible. The title “Old Testament” given to this collection of ...

C. W. E Nagelsbach, “When Christ calls Himself the way (Jn. xiv. 6), or the resurrection (Jn. xi. 25), so, too, He may be ...

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges Voltaire Voltaire wasn t far from the truth when he made this remark about Indic wisdom becoming accessible through the ...

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