When was the Hebrew Bible written? That question has long been the subject of heated debate, largely because of the fragmentary nature of the historical record. Piecing together the ancient history of ...

‘Since I was a child, I was interested in the ancient history of the Land of Israel,” says Oded Lipschits, professor of Jewish history in the biblical period in the Department of Archaeology and ...

Jews are known as the "people of the book," but was literacy important in biblical times? As explained by Matthieu Richelle, a Professor of Old Testament at the Université Catholique de Louvain in a ...

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Why are we called “Jews”? Because we are the remnants of the 12 tribes – residing in the section of Israel called Judea. And why Judea? After the fourth son of Jacob and Leah: Judah. Hence: “Jew.” But ...