Remarkably, the town of Al Qosh is home to the remains of an ancient Jewish Synagogue, and within its confines, the tomb of Nahum the Elkoshi. The tomb, purported to be 2,700-years-old is guarded by a ...

Nahum was a minor prophet who wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh. In November 2018, the US also gave $500,000 to assist in restoring the tomb, according to Adam ...

There are three important factors concerning the date of Nahum’s prophecy. First, in 3:8–10, the fall of the Egyptian city of No-amon (i.e. Thebes) to the Assyrians is spoken of as a past event, ...

Jewish officials in Kurdistan are trying to save an ancient tomb believed to belong to the biblical prophet Nahum and his sister in the Christian town of Alqosh, some 30 miles outside the ISIS ...

This report is part of a series. For several years, the Kurdish Jewish leadership in Israel has tried to build constructively on their historic ties with the Kurdistan Region, but has been obstructed ...

Since I’m not a Bible scholar, I’m not very embarrassed about the theological and historical errors I’ve made while blogging. But since I’m an American citizen, I am extremely embarrassed about the ...

U.S. Army captain and heritage expert Heather Sprowls, shown here with a local girl, surveys an 800-year-old synagogue believed to house the tomb of the biblical prophet Nahum. The crumbling stone ...

The rather large grasshoppers all have different human faces. The trees have human bodies with branches sprouting out of their heads. The animals in the Peaceable Kingdom garden seated at Isaiah’s ...

The passing of Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch this week represents the loss of an intellectual giant who produced a monumental work on Maimonides, offered groundbreaking halachic decisions through Siah Nahum ...