The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...

The Pharisees and the Sadducees were two of these groups who disagreed with each other over numerous scriptural truths. When the Pharisees failed to discredit Jesus with a question about paying taxes, ...

For the first century of its existence, Christianity functioned almost as another sect within Judaism—much like the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Herodians, and Samaritans.