I entitle this article “God,” and I did this for a specific reason. I think if we are going to talk about God, we need to discuss a couple of things to help us be more specific about who we are ...
A lead "curse tablet" written in ancient Hebrew more than 3,000 years ago may actually be a fishing weight with no discernible writing, new research suggests. The postage stamp-size lead piece, known ...
A 2,800-year-old jar inscribed in Hebrew with the Yahwistic name "Benayo" has been discovered at Abel Beth Maacah, a site in northern Israel that is mentioned numerous times in the Hebrew Bible. Since ...
Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...
ARCHAEOLOGISTS are at loggerheads over a mysterious clay idol, which some have argued could be a 3,000-year-old depiction of the Hebrew God Yahweh. Archaeologists discovered the clay figure in ancient ...
Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...
(RNS) — In his new book, Miles arrives at some surprising conclusions on the nature of God in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran. (RNS) — Ever since 9/11, Americans have been treated to ...
An ancient postage stamp-sized tablet could bear the earliest inscription of the Hebrew name for God: Yahweh. International archaeologists believe the small folded sheet of lead found in the West Bank ...