Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way ...

The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.

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For Jewish communities, in Israel and across the world, it was a wound that will take a generation to absorb. And when Christians saw the events unfold, the responsible response was not to flip ...

In the last couple of weeks, the Republican Party has been torn over questions of antisemitism and free speech after the MAGA ...

One way some Christian nonprofits mark the season is by offering free online daily devotionals on hope, peace, joy and love.

But the new sheriff in town, as disturbed as he might be, is clever. He loves Jews. Some of his best friends have shtreimels ...

The American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual joint meeting mixed scholars’ research in Biblical and religious studies with sessions on such hot-button issues as ...