Josephus identifies Gihon with the Nile. According to Rabbi Aaron Marcus, some people identify it with the Amu-dar'ya, which now flows from Afghanistan into the Aral Sea in Russia, and once …

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The legends retold in Louis Ginzberg's classic work Legends of the Bible (the first volume was published in 1909) are a variation of the stories in the Scriptures as told and retold in the …

Dr. Joseph Lowin is Executive Director of the National Center for the Hebrew Language (NY). He has written extensively (in both popular and scholarly formats) on Jewish narrative, modern …

At the head of the angelogical system described in rabbinic literature are four archangels, corresponding to the four divisions of the army of Israel as described in Numbers 2: "As the …

Part one: How the shamir* cut through the Temple stones, readying them for building According to legend, the stones themselves built the Holy Temple in the days of King Solomon. In the Book …

The role of the seven species in the battle for monotheism becomes even more apparent with the revelation that only they could brought as offerings of the first fruits (bikkurim) to the Temple in …

No other biblical figure, not even Moses, has enjoyed as much popularity in the Jewish folk imagination as Eliyahu Ha-Navi, Elijah the Prophet.Paradoxically, the biblical prophet of wrath …

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These two figures on the left stand at the church of St. Severin, Bordeaux (erected 1264). While Ecclesia (left) stands erect and crowned, Synagoga (right) is blindfolded (a serpent covering …