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 ...

For Jews in particular, the 10 Commandments embody the expansive code ... Billy Joel It’s often been said that the Hebrew letters for falsehood, “sheker,” literally have no leg to stand ...

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 ...