We stand today, like Abraham, atop the mountain, facing the delicate challenge of reconciling morality and prophecy.

To test if God is acting in history, we would have to look at the ancient nation of Israel and a Covenant, a legal agreement made between them and God. At the end of Moses’ life, in the book of ...

As per the prophecy, a “star” or “kokab” would emerge from Jacob (or Israel), and would be endowed with divine and royal qualities as symbolized by the “scepter,” or in other words an ...

Rudolph “Butch” Ware, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is running alongside ...