It included numerous hints, such as restricting certain sacrifices, and requiring when, how, and where the sacrifices may be brought and how and where they were eaten. Wise rabbis understood this. In ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). This passage comes from the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Genesis includes, among ...

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings ...