For just four hours Sunday, a complete collection of Jewish holy books in scroll form will be on exhibit at Temple Israel, a conservative Jewish synagogue in Daytona Beach. It is the world’s only ...

Shabbat is not merely a day of rest, but the eternal sign of the covenant between God and Israel (Exodus 31:17). Shabbat ...

Two of the most important words in the Hebrew Scriptures are mishpat and tzedakah. Mishpat means giving people what they are due. It is often translated "justice." In the presence of injustice, ...

This biblical book of sayings and advice is full of wisdom. The Book of Proverbs is one of the most quoted books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). Comprising the second book in the Ketuvim (or Writings) ...

The last in the series on "Reading the Hebrew Scriptures Again - For the First Time," part of the Adult Education Program at St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church, will be Sunday. The ...

Some argue that inherent human rights are implicated in a perverse individualism correlative of liberal social orders, and thus have no place in an understanding of justice as right order. The recent ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...

St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church's adult education program will offer a course next month exploring the Hebrew scriptures from a modern, scholarly perspective. The four-session ...