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PRATTVILLE – It was hoped that when children left Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church here, that they would get into their cars and talk to their families about what they learned. That they ...

When biblical scholar Esther Hamori read about the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer in 2014, she was struck by certain elements of the officer’s testimony. “I tried to ...

It’s something from the pages of the Bible and scientists think it has been gone for a very long time. Botanists have managed to grow a long-lost tree species from an ancient, 1,000-year-old seed ...

The connections between these dormant seeds recovered from local archaeological sites and plants mentioned in the Bible, Talmud, and other Jewish works are especially fascinating to her. Ancient date ...

A 1,000-year-old seed discovered in a cave in the Judean desert has sprouted, grown and reached maturity, and appears to have medicinal qualities. Commiphora caudata leaves. This tree may be a close ...

the Judean Desert, which straddles Israel and the West Bank, and growing it into a tree. The tree, named 'Sheba,' may be the true identity of the tree that produces a resinous extract called 'tsori' ( ...

(RNS) — Monsterization is nothing new, says Esther Hamori, an associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In fact, it’s right there in the pages of the Bible. (RNS) ...

The resin of a tree grown from an ancient seed found in a desert cave near Jerusalem could be the source of a medicinal balm mentioned in the Bible, a new study has found. The strange seed, about 2cm ...