During Holy Week this year, Catholic congregations will hear, and in some cases enact, the passion narratives from the Gospels of Matthew and John. Matthew 27:25 uniquely depicts a Jewish mob crying, ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they ...

Rabbi Joshua Dorsch: I had originally thought I’d become a lawyer. At the end of the day, the two professions have a lot in common. In a lot of ways, a rabbi is an interpreter of Jewish scripture and ...

(RNS) — To understand the Eucharist, we must remember that Jesus and his first disciples were all Jews. We might even say the first Christians were Jewish heretics because, unlike their fellow Jews, ...

The Poway, California, synagogue shooting made plain something a lot of us didn’t want to admit: the Pittsburgh massacre was no one-off. Amidst resurgent white nationalism, Jews in America feel unsafe ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

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Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures ...