If Louisiana wants to put the 10 Commandments in every school, shouldn’t the tablets be in the original Hebrew? Makes sense to me. Sure, the bayou kids don’t understand the language, now.

A Louisiana law requires classrooms to post the 10 Commandments, but Jews and Christians don't necessarily agree on what they are. Even among Christians, views vary on what Commandments are for.

Shavu’ot 2023. The Ten Commandments are not the Ten Commandments . I’ll start my thought on Shav’uot with a bit of “Adult Education” and then to a thought that addresses the inner life.

Ask almost anyone to recite the commandment in the Ten Commandments that prohibits taking a life and you will be told, "Thou Shall Not Kill." That is the King James translation of the sixth ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — A Baptist minister is in hot water after preaching a sermon that called the Ten Commandments sayings or promises rather than mandates.. In his Christmas Eve message, Senior ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (RNS) A Baptist minister is in hot water after preaching a sermon that called the Ten Commandments sayings or promises rather than mandates.

For most Americans, the Ten Commandments either have symbolic value, almost like an ancestral totem (in which case Hebrew should do just fine), or they have religious meaning and thus need to be ...

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, a language that might as well be Greek to most Texas schoolchildren. So which English translation of the Ten Commandments will be mandated for display?

One piece that unites all Jewish scholars is embracing the process of analyzing a Biblical (or more specifically a Torah) verse.

The commandments, then, are not arbitrary regulations but the revelation of the God who freed the Hebrew slaves.” In The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text, Michael Coogan ...