The Torah-Hebrew for "teaching" or "instruction"-makes up the first five books of the Bible. It provides the foundation for Jewish life ... Enter a still space and consider what it took to preserve an ...

The museum had recently acquired the manuscript — a rare Jewish prayer book — believing it to be part of the famous Cairo Geniza, a trove of ancient Jewish documents uncovered in a Cairo ...

D.C. has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim, the tiny book is a relic of an 8th-century civilization on the ancient ...

Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he ...

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...