Gnosticism for Beginners The lens of Gnosticism interprets the gospel story in a certain way. The Jewish deity is seen as the bad creator, the Demiurge who is surpassed by the messianic Jesus.

A preliminary creed was penned to spell out the orthodox belief, which was then refined at the Council of Constantinople in ...

While Hitler and his Nazi supporters were wreaking havoc upon Europe —upon the world, for that matter— they also had other ambitions and interests to further their attempts at tyranny, namely, their o ...

Later, a man named Moses saved the Jewish people from persecution in Egypt when he led them to safety across the Red Sea. After this, the Jews lived in the desert where God gave Moses a set of ...

They are not to be confused with the original Sibylline Books of the ancient Etruscans and Romans which were burned by order of the Roman general Flavius Stilicho in the 4th century AD. Instead, the ...

Ten of the eleven potions in the book of Exodus and many portions in other of the five books of Moses begin with the Hebrew letter vav. Why? How should it be translated? Lexicographer Reuben ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...

In Melbourne this month the Adass Israel Synagogue was fire-bombed. Photo: Getty Images Opinion: As the year winds down and we pause for some reflection, I find myself, as chair of the Holocaust ...

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(RNS) — A group representing the leaders of the United States’ largest Jewish organizations has written a letter to Pope Francis criticizing his recent condemnation of Israeli airstrikes that ...

For his 1980 tour, he played gospel music exclusively. It was a confusing time for Dylan’s Jewish fans. As the movie suggests only obliquely, the guitar-carrying hitchhiker who tried to pass ...