Who among us hasn’t heard the parable of the Good Samaritan, the focus of today’s Gospel? It’s often called Jesus’ “most famous” parable, which always amuses me. As if there is some sort of ...

Q&A with Jewish scholar Steven Fine on the history of a biblical minority. The Good Samaritan shows up in Jesus’ parable in Luke 10 without much explanation of where he came from. And then he exits ...

However, unless you are a Bible reader, you might not know that the phrase is based on a parable (teaching story) told by Jesus. Therefore, we will read the verses to garner an understanding of the ...

Scripture for Life: Here, in the middle of Luke's Gospel, we get the parable that explains the motive of Jesus' mission. When God sees suffering and need, the divine response is intimate, unbounded ...

(The Conversation) — Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary. (The Conversation) — The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more ...

This Sunday’s Gospel recounts the parable of the Good Samaritan. It also puts it in a context. The context is a test. A “scholar of the law” asked Jesus what he had to do to “inherit eternal life.” ...

The Jewish Theological Seminary of American today announced that it came into possession of a 15th century manuscript of the Samaritan Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses. The manuscript is written in ...

The arrival here of one of the few extant copies of the Samaritan Bible in the original, a hand-written manuscript of the Hebrew Pentateuch dating from the 15th century, has been announced by Rabbi ...