A recent study explores Phoenician ritual bathing traditions in Israel, showing how water rituals played a central role in ...

Zias, published in the journal Levant, reveals how ancient Phoenicians may have incorporated cleansing into their religious ...

These transformations frequently contributed to the Jew’s isolation from his non-Jewish or secular environment. Some Jewish ...

Six centuries after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and its Jewish Temple complex ... made by Persian craftsmen embellish the shrine’s interior. Arabic inscriptions proclaim the primacy of ...

He moved through Temple B’nai Israel in White Oak with a kind of joyful ... A business associate of her father’s offered shelter — a single interior room with a table and two chairs in the middle. Off ...

Beauty may very well be in the eye of the beholder, but more than 1,000 travel bloggers, writers, and agents can't be wrong about these magnificent destinations. What do travel bloggers, travel ...

Today the Temple Mount, a walled compound within the Old City of Jerusalem, is the site of two ... before entering the courts’ sanctified interior. On a cloudless morning, I join historian ...

The Bible says Hezekiah wanted to centralize worship at the Temple in Jerusalem, and in doing so, he abolished the ritual sites located across the kingdom. It also describes that during the First ...

“Herod’s Second Temple plays a key role in our story and in the unrest it caused among the Judeans,” Carsuso said. “We used an old museum as the interior base and constructed a practical ...