Jews, Christians and Moslems recognize Abraham as a common spiritual ancestor, and all three faiths look to the Genesis account of how the Lord told him: “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy ...

Start New Year 2026 with faith and hope through Christian blessings and Bible verses to share with your family from anywhere ...

There are more than 400 stone burial mounds (or cairns) on the northern and western slopes of Jebel Bishri. The mound fields were generational burial places of the Amorites, and several were utilized ...

Easy to understand yet perhaps not so easy to always fulfill, the mission of the Catholic Watchmen is: “To call all Catholic men to live up to their duty as protectors, providers and leaders in their ...

THE AMORITES.—In the current issue of Ancient Egypt, Prof. Sayce adduces further arguments for identifying the Amorites with the Mitanni rather than with the Western Semites as usually assumed. The ...

The name Palestine occupies an extraordinarily politicized position in the study of Near Eastern ethnonyms and toponyms. Its contested etymology has long ceased to be a matter of neutral philology; it ...

In the shadowy mountains of ancient Mesopotamia, where the first empires clashed and legends were born, lived a people whose very name meant "cave dwellers", yet whose influence would echo through ...

Anyone who thinks the Scriptures are not political has never read the prophet Amos hurling invectives at the rich and powerful of his time. Amos was not a professional prophet, but an uneducated ...

The fourth book of Moses is called Numbers in the English Bible, and this follows the usage of the Greek Septuagint translation. In the Hebrew it is called Bammidhbar (“In the wilderness”). The former ...

Stanley A. Cook, Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University, writing in today’s Times says that the word Semite as used by anti-Semites or “pro-Aryans,” first used about 150 years ago, was taken from ...