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Origin: Hebrew Aaron is a biblical name meaning strong, exalted one. In the Bible, Aaron was the brother of Moses ... It comes from the name Angelus, derived from the Greek word Angelos, meaning ...

After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for developing the ...

After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon, a gay man, wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for ...

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

This article is part of a series of articles produced by local LGBTQ+ publications celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. Philad ...

(Sifre on Deuteronomy piska 56) As the centuries pass, many words change their meaning; adding new meanings to the old meanings ... had been written down for many centuries in the dozens of books that ...

The Vulgate has been revised a handful of times over the years, most notably in 1592 by Pope Clementine VIII (the “Clementine ...

Last Sunday, I preached from James 3:13 to 4:8 and it struck me that in this section James is being pretty counter-cultural ...

The shofar — from the Hebrew word for a ram’s horn, which is sounded at services on the Jewish High Holy Days, this year in October — is an alarm ...

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

he took up a scroll of the Hebrew Bible, read it, presumably provided an Aramaic translation-paraphrase of the text, and then commented on it. The words he read were from Isaiah 61:1-2 ...