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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Bible

Rembrandt's Moses with the Ten Commandments,1659, Germaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin (photo credit: Google Art Poject / Wikipedia Commons)
June 6, 2025, 8:10 am
Who wrote the Bible? A pioneering new algorithm may shatter scholarly certitude
Breakthrough method analyzes word distribution to clarify origins of biblical passages — including disputed stories in Genesis, Samuel and Esther
By Rossella Tercatin
Archaeologists excavating at Megiddo in northern Israel in 2022. (Courtesy: The Megiddo Expedition)
March 30, 2025, 9:10 am
Archaeologists find first evidence of epic biblical battle at ‘Armageddon’
Pottery excavated at Megiddo in northern Israel suggests a military presence, possibly confirms the battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh Necho, and hints at Gog and Magog narrative
By Rossella Tercatin
An ancient tablet with an inscription of the Ten Commandments, to be auctioned in December 2024 by Sotheby's. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 13, 2024, 9:03 pm
Oldest inscribed Ten Commandments to be auctioned in December
Two-foot tall, 115 pound marble tablet is inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew, with Samaritan variant of Ten Commandments, including an injunction to worship on Mount Gerizim
By ToI Staff
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump wraps up a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 5, 2024, 1:30 am
Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right
Some pastors are urging their followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of the monarch who violently killed the evil Jezebel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Screenshot of Eliyahu Rips speaking to a Czechoslovakian news channel on January 19, 2019. (Ivysilani, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 31, 2024, 11:29 am
Eliyahu Rips, mathematician who claimed to find hidden code in Bible, dies at 75
Born in Latvia to Holocaust survivors in 1948, Rips moved to Israel in 1972; his research led to Michael Drosnin’s debunked bestseller ‘The Bible Code’
By ToI Staff
Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative photo of Jesus raising clay birds to life. From the Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk, a 14th century German translation of apocrypha, including the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. (public domain)
June 25, 2024, 5:51 am
1,600-year-old papyrus fragment contains earliest account of Jesus’ childhood
Scrap from extra-biblical Infancy Gospel of Thomas discovered in German archive contains story of young Jesus bringing clay birds to life on the Sabbath
By Gavriel Fiske
The Shem Tov Bible is due to be auctioned at Sotheby's in September 2024. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
June 10, 2024, 10:10 am
Sotheby’s to auction Shem Tov Bible scribed by the medieval scholar
The 1312 manuscript will be displayed at the auction house this month and again in September before it is sold
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Avi Azulay as Moses holds the Ten Commandments in the Netflix series 'Testament: The Story of Moses.' (Courtesy Netflix)
April 10, 2024, 1:58 am
‘Testament: The Story of Moses’ is a top Netflix show — and it features multiple rabbis
Released around Easter and Passover, the docudrama turns to Jewish, Christian and Muslim clergy, making it a great addition to the streamer’s small faith and spirituality category
By Jackie Hajdenberg
An illustrative picture of Israelites reading from a scroll. (iStock photos)
March 24, 2024, 10:52 am
How the Bible – and the Purim story – helped form a nation from an exiled people
In his bestseller ‘Why the Bible Began,’ theology Prof. Jacob L. Wright challenges conventional thought on the holy book’s history, positing that it was not all about religion
By Rich Tenorio
Moshe Basson foraging in the Jerusalem hills for his restaurant, Eucalyptus (Courtesy Moshe Basson)
February 12, 2024, 3:44 pm
Foraging Jerusalem restaurateur grasps the nettle, and the morel, to reopen after Oct. 7
Moshe Basson of Eucalyptus is ready to serve diners again for first time since war broke out, and his long-awaited book of recipes is out too
By Jessica Steinberg
Mauricio Avayu calls each of his works a self portrait. (Courtesy of Avayu via JTA)
December 26, 2023, 1:31 am
A Chilean-Jewish artist strives to capture the entire Torah in massive murals
Mauricio Avayu, whose work has hung in homes of former presidents and been presented to Pope Francis, sets himself apart by striving for accuracy, even consulting rabbinical texts
By Jacob Kessler
An image of a First Temple period inscription painted on a stalactite in a cave near Ein Gedi. (Boaz Langford)
September 6, 2023, 11:56 pm
Redeciphered First Temple inscription may shed light on biblical ‘Valley of Salt’
Quest to use multispectral imaging on an ancient inscription on stalactite in remote cave near Ein Gedi has surprising side effect: The discovery of four Roman soldiers’ swords
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Bible is read aloud at the Utah Capitol, Monday, November 25, 2013. The Bible has been banned at elementary and middle schools in the Davis School District north of Salt Lake City, after a review committee decided it wasn't age appropriate 'due to vulgarity or violence.' (Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
June 3, 2023, 12:44 pm
Utah district bans Bible in schools ‘due to vulgarity or violence’
Complaint filed in apparent protest after previous books were barred, leading to removal of the Bible from Davis District elementary and middle schools
By SAM METZ
Alfred Moses stands in front of the Codex Sassoon, which he purchased for more than $30 million and will be donating it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. (Perry Bindelglass for The American Friends of ANU The Museum of the Jewish People via JTA)
June 2, 2023, 4:39 pm
Alfred Moses sees the Codex Sassoon he bought for over $30 million for the 1st time
Surrounded by family, the 93-year-old former US ambassador views the 1,200-year-old Bible, which he donated to the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv ‘for the Jewish people’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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