bearded vulture or lammergeier

Priestly handbook from Sinai. Sacrifices, festivals, food laws, and the holiness code. The book that teaches I…

Moses's farewell sermons on the plains of Moab, restating the Law for the generation about to cross the Jordan…

The setting apart of a person, place, or thing to God, and the moral transformation that follows. In Christian…

A silver coin and weight, about 11 grams, used to pay the Temple tax. Thirty silver shekels was the price paid…

The standard dry measure of ancient Israel — about 22 litres of grain, a large basket. The prophet Amos rails …

A small dry measure, about 2.2 litres — the daily ration of manna in the wilderness. One-tenth of an ephah, ro…