The biblical portion Vayyeshev is the first of four portions that deal with Jacob’s son Joseph. It begins in Genesis 37:1 and ...
The marble slab dates back between 300 and 800 CE. It's also the only complete example of its kind from antiquity.
As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...
Yishai and Malkah Fleisher team up to discuss how Israel has grown since October 7th including gaining the mountain range of the Hermon – which Assad’s Syria partially held. Dr. Mordechai Kedar an ...
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 ...
Why did Jacob become furious and say he feared the allies of Shechem would seek revenge? The questions do seem to indicate Jacob was fearful. Yet, we must realize that the Bible’s story does not ...
In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a ... of love and death in the city of Shechem; of her half-brother Joseph's rise in Egypt, and of course her marriage to Shechem and it's bloody ...
34), Shechem, a local prince ... and it is marriage that comes closest to the deep resonances of the biblical idea of covenant. A covenant is a mutual act of commitment in which two persons ...