Traditionally chanted during Yom Kippur, the book delivers both rich literary rewards and a powerful lesson on an essential Jewish value.

Despite a year full of distance, imperfections, disappointment, perhaps even betrayal of our very nature, on Yom Kippur we are all doves, possessing the ability to, in the end, return home.

It's unlikely, in the annals of Biblical screen adaptations, that a prophet has been played by a talking piece of asparagus before. Such a thing, however, is par for the course for "VeggieTales," the ...

The Book of Jonah says in Chapter 2: Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, saying, ‘I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol ...

Since I’m not a Bible scholar, I’m not very embarrassed about the theological and historical errors I’ve made while blogging. But since I’m an American citizen, I am extremely embarrassed about the ...

“ In distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and brought me relief.” (Psalms 118:5) “The torments of Sheol ...

Christian scholars look for ways to connect with Muslims over the shared story of Jonah. Twenty miles south of Beirut is a sandy beach called Jiyeh. It’s a rare interlude in Lebanon’s rocky coastline, ...

The preface to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible offers two analogies related to the interpretation of scripture. It likens scripture first to a mosaic that arrives disassembled and must ...

In his Biographies of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East, Chaldean Patriarch Mar Louis Raphael Sako noted that the tomb ...

An Iraqi shrine that is purported to be the burial site of Jonah, who the Bible says was swallowed by a whale, has been blown up by Islamic State militants (ISIS). The tomb, a popular destination for ...