Discover the world's oldest written languages still in use. Learn about the rich history and enduring legacy of Sanskrit, ...

What makes Matthew important is the belief that he later wrote an account of Jesus’s life and ministry known as “The Gospel ...

At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song,' which was seven years in the making, focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

An exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum charts the influence and allure of the Book of Psalms across religions and ...

To a young Jessica Sacks growing up in England, the country’s towering chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, was more than just a distant religious figure — he was an uncle. “He was very busy, so we didn’t get ...

Why are the thousands of torii gates at Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Shrine painted a striking orange? Is it for beauty, symbolism, ...

Mammon is a loan word, derived from Hebrew and Aramaic, but repackaged in Greek for Luke’s Gospel (and Matthew’s). It means “money” or “wealth”. Augustine once mentioned that the word “mammon” was ...

But, in 1993, an Israeli archeologist working near the Syrian border found a fragment of basalt from the ninth century B.C., with an Aramaic inscription that mentioned the “House of David”—the first ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

The great promise of the Manicheans proved illusory, but the problem remained unresolved for all that. Augustine was unable to convert to the Christianity of the Catholic Church until he had learned, ...