Look up any verse in the Bible and you will find examples of how the ideas expressed there are conveyed in other languages ...

As a New Jersey kid in the 1940s, every Saturday morning when I should have been in shul, I listened to the radio show Let’s ...

Worldwide, birthdays were first acknowledged in ancient Egypt in 3000 BC, where the Pharaoh reveled in his birthday in a huge ...

The New Testament presents the Pharisees as a group that vehemently opposed the ministry of Jesus. Yet, a select few among ...

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.

The Italian biblical commentator Ovadiah ben Yakov Sforno (1474-1549) writes: וידום אהרן, seeing he consoled himself after ...

Which meant reading the Bible, in English ... Booke of Psalmes” (1640), which attempted a more faithful translation of the Hebrew than any the emigrants had carried across the ocean.

Unfortunately, there are many instances of well-meaning, intelligent people misinterpreting the Bible. Sometimes, they did it intentionally to teach a lesson, and sometimes, they got it wrong. I will ...

Pamela Nadler Emmerich — then a teenager from Montreal — arrived in Jerusalem for her freshman year at Hebrew University. ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill completes his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, with the prophets ...

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 ...