“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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a group of African-Americans living in Israel who believed they were descendants of the biblical tribe of Judah, has died.

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly ...

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 ...

Exodus recounts God directing Moses, aided by Aaron, to oppose Pharoah and liberate the Israelites from bondage? Very male, ...