What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

Transplanted from Israel, grassroots movement Faithful Left to hold large gathering this month to create dialogue on thorny ...

The term “the Trinity” does not appear anywhere in the Bible. The concept of the Trinity is also not explicitly taught in the ...

G-d’s most intimate name, which is not pronounced (Hebrew letters yod-kay-vav-kay) indicates timelessness. Yet, a masculine plural name used during creation (Elohim), which appears feminine in ...

Forced conversions: Emperor Justinian (527-565) enacted laws banning Jewish religious traditions, including Hebrew scripture readings. Jews were blamed for plagues, fires, and military defeats ...

Gospel singer David Dam has released “This Is Kingdom Come (Elohim Adonai),” a song that proclaims God’s kingdom as a place of righteousness and peace. It calls for miracles, signs ...

Credit: NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Bible is the biggest-selling and most read book in human history; originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the first ...

JTA — Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC), the Reform movement’s academic and leadership training institution, is selling part of its Los Angeles campus to the nearby ...