An ancient seal bearing a Hebrew script and recovered in Jerusalem may have belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. The seal may be the earliest historical evidence relating to the holy man, who was ...
The prophet would ask why we continue spending billions of dollars for weapons and tax cuts while cutting aid to the hungry, the sick, the unemployed, and victims of wars and climate disasters.
But damage to the inscription removes the final letter that would have spelled out "prophet," so we may never know. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...
Some 2,700 years ago, someone pressed a seal bearing the name Isaiah into a soft piece of clay, which hardened over time, say archaeologists who discovered the impression in Jerusalem. If the seal was ...
Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, ...
(Author’s note: As in all my religion lessons, I write as a historian, not as a theologian. History is about describing actual events. Religion is about faith in God, which is impossible to ...