Religion

Hebrew lawgiver, probably b. Egypt. The prototype of the prophets, he led his people in the 13th cent. B.C. out of bondage in Egypt to the edge...

Heb. Yerushalayim, Arab. Al Quds, city (1994 pop. 578,800), capital of Israel. It is situated on a ridge 2,500 ft (760 m) high that lies...

In Judaism, a place of worship...

Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament). The designations...

In Judaism, the first five books of the Tenakh, or Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament)...

Ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or...