The Museum of the Bible on Tuesday unveiled what it says is the oldest Hebrew book ever discovered, dating to the 8th century ...
What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...
Tyndale was familiar with it, but dreamt of a better translation. English had changed a ... and set about translating the Old ...
the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible - a 2nd-century B.C. Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture. It was the "Bible" for the Greek-speaking Jews.
In the secular calendar, a new month begins in the middle of the moon’s cycle. In the Jewish calendar, a new month begins ...
Which brings me to Adam and Eve and name-giving in the Hebrew Bible. Adam’s name describes his essence. Genesis 2:7 recounts that God fashioned a being, a human min-ha-adamah (מִן ...
Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on Sept. 30 — is famous for translating the entire Bible into Latin in the fourth century A.D., creating a ...
No, the United States government is not suing a Jewish book, though the title of the legal case might make it seem that way: ...
On Shemini Atzeret, the seventh day of Sukkot, Jews read tefillat geshem, an ancient Hebrew prayer for rain, during synagogue services. The prayer beseeches God to bring the Land of Israel enough rain ...
For two-and-a-half weeks, 28 students were immersed in the Judeo-Spanish language of the Sephardic Jews at the inaugural session of the International Ladino Summer School at the Hebrew University ...