Eyal Yitzhak Matas, 15, was declared winner of traditional competition on Bible book, after head to head battle with Israeli contestant. The International Bible Contest is a worldwide competition on the Bible for high school students. It is held annually in Jerusalem, Israel, on Yom Ha’atzmaut (the Israel’s Independence Day). The event was held for Read More
Hebrew had ceased to be an everyday spoken language somewhere between 200 and 400 CE, declining since the aftermath of the Bar Kochba War. Aramaic and to a lesser extent Greek were already in use as international languages, especially among elites and immigrants. It survived into the medieval period as the language of Jewish liturgy, Read More
Gabriel’s Revelation is a three-foot-tall stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person and dated to the late 1st century BCE. One of the stories allegedly tells of a man who was killed by the Romans and resurrected in three days. It Read More
On June 29, 2008, Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, sent a letter to bishops’ conferences on the use of God’s name (YHWH) in the Roman Catholic liturgical worship. Reacting to the “new practice” to pronounce this name (which is avoided by the Jewish community), Read More
from “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church” (Pontifical Biblical Commission) Fundamentalist interpretation starts from the principle that the Bible, being the word of God, inspired and free from error, should be read and interpreted literally in all its details. But by “literal interpretation” it understands a naively literalist interpretation, one, that is to Read More
The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked. Indeed, “the economy of the Old Testament was deliberately so oriented that it should prepare for and declare in prophecy the coming of Christ, redeemer of all Read More
by Abraham Heschel There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own, but give, not control, but share; not submit, but agree. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of material goods, becomes our only concern. One of the most remarkable words Read More
There are no surviving Roman records of the First Century that refer to, nor are there any Jewish records that support the accounts in the Christian gospels — except one. In Rome, in the year 93, Josephus published his lengthy history of the Jews. While discussing the period in which the Jews of Judaea were Read More
Feast of the Mother of God, of the Circumcision of Jesus, World Day of Peace by Isabelle Denis, nds In the 7th century Church of Rome, January 1 was the first feast during the days following Christmas in honor of the Virgin Mother of God – Theotokos, as the Oriental Church calls her. To this Octave of Christmas Read More
