Fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts recovered from the Qumran Caves in the mid-1940s Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY ...

A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community ...

(RNS) — “Chaver,” an honorific with origins in ancient Jewish history, has traditionally been awarded to rabbinical scholars and pillars of the religious community.

The reference, part of a wine-shipping order, was written in ancient Hebrew on a small piece of papyrus. It reads: “From the king’s maidservant, from Na’arat, jars of wine, to Jerusalem.” ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible, which is more than 1000 years old, is being sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is "the earliest, most complete text of its kind," auction house Sotheby's said. It's ...