Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...

The question of whether Jesus spoke and taught in Greek has, at times in the past, been a subject of serious debate. But for ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

A prayer book that once belonged to notorious killer Dr Crippen who poisoned and dismembered his wife before burying her remains beneath their home has been sold at auction. The leather-bound book ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

Also known as the Afghan Siddur, the diminutive prayer book measures five inches by five inches and “is comprised of prayers, poems, and pages of the oldest discovered Passover Haggadah ...

The prayer below, which Dave wrote for our book, The Prayer Book for Tired Parents, purely and simply spells out a father’s desire for holiness that has transformed our family. He has seen the f ...

How then did Niebuhr come to write this prayer? His daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, recounts the story in her book “The Serenity Prayer.” She was a girl when Niebuhr first composed the lines for a ...

Dated to between 408BC and 318AD, they are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus and bronze. The scrolls are traditionally divided ...