During Holy Week this year, Catholic congregations will hear, and in some cases enact, the passion narratives from the Gospels of Matthew and John. Matthew 27:25 uniquely depicts a Jewish mob crying, ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

We hear themes such as justification by faith not works, justification through faith in Jesus Christ not the Law, the justification of sinners, dying to the Law and living to God, the crucifixion of ...

Rabbi Joshua Dorsch: I had originally thought I’d become a lawyer. At the end of the day, the two professions have a lot in common. In a lot of ways, a rabbi is an interpreter of Jewish scripture and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

Stop Using God’s Name to Curse the Jews. There is something especially vile about using the language of faith to sanctify h ...

In the wake of LGBTQ+ legislation and the rise of gender issues in modern conversation, many Oklahomans have turned to scripture for guidance. In a recent letter to the editor, a retired reverend in ...

(RNS) — To understand the Eucharist, we must remember that Jesus and his first disciples were all Jews. We might even say the first Christians were Jewish heretics because, unlike their fellow Jews, ...

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In December 2017, the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest gathering of Jewish scholars in the world, took place in downtown Washington. There were panels on medieval ...