Catholics at worship should neither sing nor pronounce the name of God as "Yahweh," the Vatican has said, citing the authority of Jewish and Christian practice. The instruction came in a June 29 ...

A lead "curse tablet" written in ancient Hebrew more than 3,000 years ago may actually be a fishing weight with no discernible writing, new research suggests. The postage stamp-size lead piece, known ...

Old Testament scholars like Knauf and Romer make a case for YHWH being a storm god related to Qos and Edomite religion, based on a linguistic case. If their theory was plausible and you had to accept ...

This is more to dispel my ignorance than anything else, but I understand that Judaism holds that saying the name of God is "a bad thing." However, "God" is not really the name, is it? It's just a ...

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Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...

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The Book of Psalms reminds us that worship demands our unequivocal devotion and allegiance. The Psalms capture the full range of human experience. Personal and collective, sorrowful and rejoicing, ...

We usually think it’s our job. Think twice. On a recent trip, I had a conversation with a man who learned I was from Vancouver. He had lived there years earlier, and after asking if a particular music ...

Researchers say they see no sign of an inscription on a tablet previously thought to contain the Hebrew name for the god Yahweh. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...