Q: The Bible chronology puts Moses much later in time, around 1450 B.C.E. Is there archeological evidence for Moses and the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Israelites described in the Bible?

Like Jews, Samaritans claim to be the descendants of the ancient Israelites. The Bible presents David and Solomon’s reigns as ...

How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism? In the following interview, Shaye Cohen, the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard ...

Ancient Israelites burned cannabis as part of their religious rituals, an archaeological study has found. A well-preserved substance found in a 2,700-year-old temple in Tel Arad has been ...

The Israelites’ exit from Egypt is one of the most iconic occurrences in Judaism and it remained significant in the later ...