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 ...

Told through Dinah's eloquent voice, this sweeping miniseries reveals the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood ... of love and death in the city of Shechem; of her half-brother Joseph's ...

The miniseries also manages to touch on well-known Biblical stories like Dinah's brother Joseph and his coat of many colors, ...

And yet, Yaakov is considered the father of the Jewish people, known since ancient times as the Benei ... is abducted and raped by the prince of Shechem, his sons get the townsmen to circumcise ...

And the biggest question: Why 20 verses on this? When Ya’akov buys part of Shechem (eventually, the Tomb of Yosef), there’s one verse (Breishit 33:19), and when King David buys the Temple ...

John 2:1–11) revealed the Messiah who was reviving the powers of ancient time ... of Aenon by Salim lies southeast of Nablus and Shechem (cf. W. F. Albright). Most likely the Samaritan highland ...

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 ...

Was Rashi correct in thinking Jacob was righteous? Some might argue that, in many ways, he was like other humans. He had good and bad points. He made mistakes, as we all do. But generally speaking, he ...