“Hey Jacob, it’s time to wake up,” they chanted, using a term for people of color who have yet to embrace their “true” identity as descendants of the Biblical Jacob, later called Israel.

I think there is a kind of primitive democracy in early Israel, which is enshrined in the vision of the good life in the Hebrew Bible. Q: And these settlements grow, right? Dever: Yes. These ...

Researchers think they have identified a biblical site known as Mahanaim, along with a residence that may have been used by ...

A movement of people of African descent who claim to descend from the biblical Israelites, one offshoot has been described as a hate group. Black Hebrew Israelites can refer broadly to people of ...

In this context, it offers an explanation for Israel's poor condition and implicitly a reason to hope for the future. Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets (Isaiah ...

The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ... difference between early biblical Hebrew and late biblical ...

researcher Israel Finkelstein wrote that he and co-author Professor Tallay Ornan from the Hebrew University “propose that the site of Tulul ed-Dhahab in Transjordan may be the biblical Mahanaim." ...