This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

Rituals for the sun god Shamash often involved the sacrifice of sheep or goats and were made between sunset and sunrise. Because the "ram in the thicket" statuettes evoke sunrise — the time and ...

Reb Tzvi Hirsh Gerzhoi, the legendary Shamash of Moscow’s central Shul, was remembered at a Shloshim memorial event, with the ...

In an era when AI is opening new questions about the ownership of texts, the Torah stands apart, writes the chief learning ...

This was the Golden Age of Kabbala and Mysticism, where they composed works of Jewish law, mysticism, Torah commentary and ...

Director Sandi DuBowski says that the efforts of Amichai Lau-Lavie spark discussion, thought and connections between ...

Amber Iman delivers a performance of supple vocal power as a nightclub singer in Kenya in this mythological musical with book and direction by Saheem Ali.

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

How can a good God command—and engage in—unspeakable horrors? To take perhaps the most salient example from the Bible, readers both ancient and modern have been perplexed by the notion that God ...

NARRATOR: For Thomas Jefferson, the new republic must be founded with religious freedom and that, he believed, was a God-given right. >> One thing he says is, "God created us in such a way that we ...

This verse is strikingly similar to the verse from the second paragraph of Shema, “If you continually hear My Commandments ...

1. The Bible teaches that human life is different from other types of life, because human beings are made in the very image of God. The accounts of the creation of man and woman in Genesis (Gen.