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How Hamas’ October 7 terror attack and Israel’s response exhausted evangelical Bible professors pursuing unity on the Israeli ...

But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another ... His expression moved beyond words; it was a song, a melody.

In 1983, biblical scholar Robert Gundry was ousted from the Evangelical Theological Society. Gundry, in his lengthy ...

I had a friend in Sarasota, Florida, who may have been one of the brightest biblical scholars I have ever met. He told me one ...

I travelled to Israel to try and work out what October 7 had meant as the first anniversary approached. The massacres ...

With any illustrated book, most readers turn first to the pictures. Band illuminates Qohelet in both pointed Hebrew ...

“We need now to focus our messages and our words on comforting each other and supporting each other and loving ... “Loving ...

While it is true that most typically Jewish names are simply taken from Tanach or Chazal (especially male names), not all do.

Israel suffers untold economic, political and social costs when its reputation is sullied, even when the U.N. resolutions are malicious and false.

Themes of transparency and accountability arise in my mother’s Rosh Hashanah Seder and High Holidays Haggadah’s series of ...

Rashi (there) explains that passage as referring to Hashem “clearing” Himself of all other tasks (i.e., making Himself available) in order to pay the reward due to those who follow His words.