(RNS) — The 15-by-24 Pentateuch bound in leather with metal bosses dates to around the year 1000 and was acquired two years ago by the Green Collection, headed by billionaire Steve Green of the Hobby ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new ...

This genetic burden suggests that the population was shaped by what geneticists call a founder event or a bottleneck. In other words, a small number of foremothers and forefathers contributed much of ...

If the common background of Arab and Jew “were realized by the people at large greater amity would be shown by the Arabs of Palestine towards the Jews,” Dr. Israel Davidson, Professor of Medical ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, ...

A BYU professor and seven students joined a consortium of universities to excavate mosaics telling the stories of Jael and Deborah in the Galilean village of Huqoq. The Israelite commander Barak ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving ...