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 ...

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 ...

This inaugural printed Hebrew edition of the Prophets, with Kimhi’s scholarly annotations, was produced in 1485 by the esteemed Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino. This edition, which predates ...

Brandeis University has just issued Books Like Sapphires, written by Ann Brener, who highlights a selection of the books in ...

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 ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

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." ...

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

(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 ...