While researching this study, I found a lesson titled “The Most Powerful Prayers In The Bible” by Maricris Navales. Under the sub-head, “Applying the Bible Prayer to Your Daily Life,” she wrote, “This ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

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Prayers are a particularly usable form of literature. And because they are composed by human beings to answer our most intimate needs, the stock of prayers always grows and changes. One scholar, for ...

JTA — In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim, the ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...