bible

The Hebrew Bible has no shortage of beautiful expressions about yearning for peace.

The King James version of the Bible made this phrase familiar, but few understand its full import.

How the Book of Job made its way into Jewish prayer and ritual.

After first Isaiah’s message of rebuke, another writing under his name came to comfort Israel with immortal poetry.

Without her, we wouldn't have the fifth book of the Torah.

The Book of Ecclesiastes may be the section of the Hebrew Bible most relevant to the way we experience the world today.

A book that challenges the rest of the Bible by asking how a good God can permit so much suffering.

The first Jew is widely regarded as a man of faith, but he was also a man of deep love.

A warrior and prophetess, she's the only woman in the Hebrew Bible with hard political power who is portrayed positively.

Isaac's wife and Jacob's mother, the second matriarch survived a difficult pregnancy and engineered the future of the Jewish people.