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Aramaic ( Aramaya) is a family of languages or dialects, belonging to the Semitic family. More specifically, it is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily, which also includes Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Phoenician. The Aramaic script was widely adopted for other languages and is ancestral to both the Arabic and modern Hebrew […]

The Bible is a canonical collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single «Bible» and many Bibles with varying contents exist. The term Bible is shared between Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their collections of canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups include different books […]

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. «Christian» derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach. There are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict. However, «Whatever else they might disagree […]

Hanukkah also known as the Festival of Lights and Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the […]

The Temple Mount, known in Hebrew as Har HaBáyit () or as Har HaMōriyā () and in Arabic as the Haram al-Sharif (, al-ḥaram al-qudsī ash-šarīf), the Noble Sanctuary, is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a religious site for thousands of years. […]

Jerusalem (; ; ), located on a plateau in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, is one of the oldest cities in the world. It is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Israelis and Palestinians both claim Jerusalem as their capital, as Israel maintains its primary […]

The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi; , Bəmidbar, «In the desert [of]») is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. Numbers begins at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites have received their laws and covenant from God and God has taken up residence among […]

The Book of Exodus or, simply, Exodus (from Greek ἔξοδος, exodos, meaning «going out»; , Sh’mot, «Names»), is the second book of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). The book tells how the Israelites leave slavery in Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, the God who has chosen Israel as his people. […]

The Book of Genesis (from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning «origin»; , Bərēšīṯ, «In [the] beginning») is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. The basic narrative expresses the central theme: God creates the world (along with creating the first man […]

The Book of Leviticus (; from Greek Λευιτικός, Leuitikos, meaning «relating to the Levites») is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah (or Pentateuch). Its Hebrew name, , Vayikra/Wayikra, comes from its first word, «And He called.» The English name is from the Latin Leviticus, taken […]

The Book of Deuteronomy (from Greek Δευτερονόμιον, Deuteronomion, «second law»; , Devarim, «[spoken] words») is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah. The Hebrew title is taken from the opening phrase Eleh ha-devarim, «These are the words…»; the English title is from a Greek mis-translation of the Hebrew phrase mishneh […]