Escaping into solitude, avoiding hunters’ need to roam, I long so for the latitude to find my longitude, my home, where with ...

The Book of Devarim is not a repetition, it is an explanation of Torah in the Land, and its first lesson is that those who ...

THE BIBLE story of Joshua's long day, which tells of a miracle of how the "Sun stood still" was unravelled by a scientist, who concluded there was "no reason" to believe that it "could not have ...

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel points out (God in Search of Man, P. 257-278), that there is a fundamental difference between the concepts of the Torah (the 5 books of Moses) being from Sinai and ...

The Book of Joshua, found in the Bible, tells of how one of Moses’ assistants who built an altar of stones where the Israelites made peace offerings.

The dominance of Moses in pre-Persian Jewish tradition is affirmed by the role he plays in the Pentateuch, the ultimate testament to his authority. Yet the Pentateuch was a product of the Aaronide ...

This week is part two of Moses in the New Testament. Last Sunday, we focused on Moses in the Gospels, and today we explore the Book of Acts. If you missed last week, catch up now.

Moses had to struggle to succeed and often failed; Joshua seems to have been above the fray. During his term of office we read of no major criticism and people generally tended to do what he asked.