For many Jews, the sacred texts are very special, so a great deal of respect is shown towards them. The Torah refers to the first five books of Moses. Judaism teaches that God dictated the Torah ...

Israelite religion has sacred interpreters, but it's only Judaism that has sacred interpreters, sages, studying a sacred text. And the sacred text is meant to be the property of the entire community.

"While Judaism today is more decentralized and egalitarian than ever, it also raises new questions that our generation must ...

The New Testament recognizes the authority of the Sacred Scriptures of ... These two texts not only affirm the authority of the Jewish Scriptures; they reveal the basis for this authority as ...

We have texts from ribald Yiddish joke books to the most sacred texts. All of it represents the richness of Jewish life in the Diaspora. A letter from a water carrier is every bit as important as ...

Davis has been awarded a grant from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Confraternity of Christian Doctrine to develop a curriculum for a course in Jewish-Christian learning based on the ...

As part of this launch, the “Orit” Beta Israel Torah scroll of the Ethiopian Jewish community, previously belonging to Kes ...

Secularism alone denies Israel’s Jewish roots and raison d’être. Tradition alone can produce dangerously fanatical and ...