What’s under the mask does not match what the external shows itself to be. Externally, the Pharisees worshipped God. Under ...

What’s the essential difference between the golden cherubim that were carved on top of the ark of the covenant and the golden calf constructed by Aaron in the wilderness? A skeptical “biblical scholar ...

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson decided last week that he would try to clarify to the pope what the Bible says on immigration.

Rejection of “foreign worship” is a primary commandment and central to the Jewish worldview. Idolatry is among the most serious sins in Judaism and its rejection is core to the Jewish worldview.

There is something Niebuhrian, and highly ironic, about Rudd's attempt to navigate between the purity of the idealists and the hard right literalism of the conservatives. It has become rather ...

David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. It has become rather fashionable to hurl criticism at the theological and political legacy of ...