After a two-year pandemic pause, a team of archaeologists, academics, and students, led by Dr. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, returned to the Lower Galilee ...

Chapter 9 As I wrote a few days ago, the central message of Judges is that the absence of a strong ruler produces barbarous anarchy. But this chapter’s lesson? Kings aren’t always so hotsy-totsy ...

Last February, Union Theological Seminary hosted Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for our annual Judith Davidson Moyers Women of Spirit Lecture. It’s an honor given to women whose work is ...

The first thing I’m noticing about the Book of Judges is that there don’t appear to be any judges in it. Sure, they may be called “judges,” but they’re really generals, left-handed assassins, female ...

“Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet who was judging Israel at that time. She would sit under the Palm of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites ...

The ancient mosaics, identified by the biblical heroine’s telltale tent stake, were discovered during a synagogue excavation in Galilee. The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and ...

The inscription represents a rare and valuable clue to the development and spread of writing systems in the region. Dafna Gazit / Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists in southern Israel have ...