The liturgy of Passover is particularly focused on thanking G-d for enabling the Israelite slaves to escape ancient Egypt. And when we anecdotally tell the story of Passover, whether to small children ...

A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

The mention of drummers today usually conjures up images of male musicians. Certainly female percussionists exist, but whether for rock combos or symphony orchestras, we tend to think of men, not ...

In the ancient world in which they live, women are not the power players. Two brothers, Moses and Aaron, are the protagonists. Pharaoh, the villain. The taskmasters, who wield power in Egypt, are all ...

Some were heretics and others heroes, but these royal women all took center stage in some of the most important stories in the Old Testament. Bathsheba, Jezebel, Athaliah, and Esther are all ...

Over the past two centuries, European and North American adventurers and archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of thousands of texts in the Near East that have provided a fascinating context in which ...