of its use not conscious. They washed when they entered the Tent of Meeting and when they approached the altar—as יהוה had commanded Moses. The Torah Temimah suggests that this verse tells us that ...

The birds of Jerusalem welcomed brother sun’s rise with morning songs. The shadow cast by the Second Temple pointed westward toward the governor’s palace. It was westward, toward the palace, that the ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate asked Jesus that question in John 18:38 after Jesus said he had come into the world to testify to the truth and that everyone on the side of truth listened to him.

He is the only Roman official and non-Christian person named in Christian creeds: every week in churches around the world, millions recite that Jesus “suffered under Pontius Pilate.” It is a striking ...