In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

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A team of academics is aiming to correct centuries-old errors in the Hebrew Bible, but some are questioning the wisdom of their endeavor. LOS ANGELES (JTA ...

Last week, I spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. on a panel about the Bible and American renewal. Specifically, my speech focused on the Hebrew Bible and the origins and ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at ...

Travel to the Spanish region of Catalonia today and it’s easy to uncover evidence of the Jewish communities that thrived during the Middle Ages. There’s Girona’s labyrinth Jewish Quarter, Spain’s only ...

JEWS THE world over will gather around the Seder table this week to recount again the great narrative of their ancestors’ redemption from slavery in Egypt. In retelling the story, they will quote the ...

Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire is diving into the Hebrew scriptures. On the holiday of Shavuot, he posted an image of a Bible, open to the passage of Leviticus pertaining to the holiday. Stoudemire ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...