This week’s Torah portion describes our exile in Egypt. According to the text, we know that Pharaoh enslaved us and put us to work building the treasury cities of Pithom and Raamses (Shemot 1:11). The ...

A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C. The late Middle AgesA lamb, unleavened ...

This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here to get Haaretz’s free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox. Israeli archaeologists are ...

Biblical history reminds Christians to serve and build a kingdom not of this world. Put a different way, to what extent are biblical lessons regarding life in the Holy Land normative for Christians ...

This story was originally published on My Jewish Learning. (JTA) — Years ago, my family and I visited the ancient Roman baths for which the city of Bath, England, is known and named. An exhibition ...