(JTA) — A previously unreadable fire-damaged ancient scroll discovered in 1970 has been found to contain the first eight verses of Leviticus, one of the five books of the Torah. Using a micro ...

Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

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 ...

Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets ... although parts of them may be very ancient indeed. The books of Psalms, for instance, contains many hymns from Israelite temple ...

A new installment of the Amos Parisman mysteries is out. In this book, L.A.’s “oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe” Parisman has to track down the fate of a historic Torah scroll that’s been ...