A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A researcher has achieved a milestone in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering for the first time one of their ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

Jesus used the f-slur in the Bible?

The Bible is already the most translated book ever—it is available in full in more than 750 languages—but they would like to ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s sweeping and experimental anti-war novel John D. Negroponte, a career diplomat and national ...

Suspected Sydney Gunmen Were Motivated by ISIS, Australia’s Leader Says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said two gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration were motivated by “Islamic ...

Two men toting long guns opened fire on hundreds of people who were celebrating Hanukkah on Bondi Beach in Sydney, the core of the Australian city’s Jewish community. By Victoria Kim and Livia ...