The 10 Commandments are not meant to be understood out of context, says Marvin Sweeney, professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology in Los Angeles, a Methodist seminary. The language ...

By Victor Mather Sotheby’s auction house is selling a stone version of the Ten Commandments ... dealer.” The commandments on the stone are written in an early version of Hebrew now called ...

He also pointed to the Paleo-Hebrew lettering, saying: “The script is a key to it. We know when it went out of common usage.” The tablet contains curious variations on the Ten Commandments as ...