As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...

An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text ...

Wicked” is a midrash on “The Wizard of Oz.” What is a “midrash?” It is how the ancient sages uncovered meanings in biblical ...

See more items in: Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.2: Underwood and Underwood ...

In case of abuse, Report this post. The incident in Chapter thirty four of Bereishit, involving the rape and violation of Dina, is most troubling.Shechem son of Chamor was the perpetrator of this ...

They gave to Jacob all the alien gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth that was near Shechem” (Gen. 35:1-4). What a strange ...

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...