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Religious History & Archaeology
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From the Mundane to the Sacred (Part V)
9+ hour, 21+ min ago (521+ words) Categories: Headline / Torah By Moshe Gantz and Joseph Miller October 11, 2026, 3 PM ET We have spent the last several articles following animal hide as it becomes klaf. But parchment alone does not make a mezuzah, tefillin, or Sefer Torah. Eventually the…...
Slips of Paper, Layers of Tradition Between the Stones: The History of Prayer Notes in the Western Wall
15+ hour, 9+ min ago (1664+ words) The modern practice involves clearing the notes twice annually, typically before Passover and before the High Holy Days, a schedule that reflects both practical considerations, including making space for the influx of pilgrims during major festivals, and symbolic ones, as…...
Early church leaders melt down over eating pork in ancient clash
17+ hour, 58+ min ago (569+ words) Food brings people together. Yet the exact items on a dinner plate can easily drive a wedge between close friends. Sometimes, a simple shared meal sparks a feud that echoes through generations. Early religious leaders faced a major clash over…...
Icon Missing from Florida Church for 100 Years Turns Up on a Back Wall in Another Country
19+ hour, 28+ min ago (375+ words) An Orthodox icon missing from a Florida church for over a century made an unexpected appearance at a church in Greece. Mayor John Koulianos of Tarpon Springs, Florida, was on vacation in Greece when he encountered the lost icon of…...
Church seeks help decoding Da Vinci-style labyrinth
1+ day, 8+ min ago (792+ words) A church where a hidden labyrinth has been uncovered is asking the public to help decipher its meaning. The tiled green and brown floor at St Mary's in Itchen Stoke, Hampshire set below stained-glass windows and spanning about 16.5 ft (5m) was…...
What Do We Mean by the Word “Mystery?”
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (553+ words) In the secular world, a “mystery” is something that baffles or eludes understanding, something that lies undisclosed. And the usual attitude of the world toward mystery is to solve it, get to the bottom of, or uncover it. Mysteries must…...
Visiting parts of Jewish history throughout southern Turkey
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1408+ words) The Torah portion of Noah, which we will read this Shabbat, concludes with a powerful verse: “And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldees to…...
Biblical site where Jesus 'walked on water' discovered after 2,000 years
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (455+ words) Archaeologists have unearthed portions of the location where Scripture records Jesus "walked on water." 'The Sea of Galilee' is a body of water situated in northeast Israel, where an ancient fishing settlement called Capernaum once existed along its northern coastline....
The true story of Uzzah and the Ark
1+ week, 2+ day ago (618+ words) God commanded that the Ark of the Covenant, in this image, was not to be touched, but Uzzah does anyway. At Beit Aveinu, we like to try to understand stories, principles, and laws in the Bible from the perspective that…...
LIVING AND GROWING: Fingerprints
1+ week, 1+ day ago (162+ words) Published 4:30 am Saturday, October 3, 2026 Submitted by Gina Del Rosario “For in Him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28 I believe that every human being’s God-given mission has one end goal: love, and only love, to allow love…...