A rare, 14th-century handwritten Hebrew Bible from Spain will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York this month.

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

Ancient Jews held large communal meals, inviting friends, relatives and perhaps even strangers to fulfill the thank offering.

These fascinating facts will help you understand what Hanukkah is, where it came from and how it's celebrated today ...

Bible sales have boomed in recent years. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bob Smietana of Religion News Service about what's behind the trend.

In Leviticus 26 one notices several striking verses which cause any student of the Bible to pause and reflect. For example, verses 21, 23, and 27 speak of God multiplying punishments seven-fold on his ...

The Geneva Bible was the Bible of both the Pilgrims and the Puritans who came to these shores, beginning with the arrival of ...

The King James Bible was translated by a group of about 47 scholars, divided into six committees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Each committee was responsible for translating a specific ...

All modern concepts of the Garden of Eden stem from a few verses in the biblical Book of Genesis, none of which is entirely free from ambiguity. The ancient Hebraic documents, from which the early ...

Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on Sept. 30 — is famous for translating the entire Bible into Latin in the fourth century A.D., creating a widely read ...