His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

And yet the Hebrew Bible — including the Torah, its first five books — is riddled with corruptions and alterations that have accrued and been passed down over the millennia. Now an ...

To legitimize its custody of the manuscript, found in an Afghan cave, the Museum of the Bible invoked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and forged an interfaith coalition of Jews, Christians a ...

In certain cases it's known who exactly wrote a book of the Bible, according to Professor Polczer, but in others it's less clear. The Christian Bible has two sections, the Old Testament and the New ...

In my recent book on early Israel I characterize the ... but there is a sort of egalitarianism in the Hebrew Bible: "Every man under his own fig tree, equal in the eyes of Yahweh." ...

Intermountain Jewish News Editor Editor and Publisher Rabbi Hillel Goldberg is the author of a new book, God Spoke Once, I Heard Twice: The Torah’s Lens on Fifty-Four Fields of Human Knowledge, ...

(JTA) — A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible became the most expensive book ever sold Wednesday when it drew a price of $38.1 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The buyer of the item ...