Let’s start at the very beginning. It is, as “>very good place to start. Let’s go to the biblical book of Genesis, or, more specifically, to the Hebrew text of it, known as B’reishit, and look at the ...

Following comments made by Pope Francis during a teaching before a general audience at the Vatican, Israel's top Jewish leaders issued a letter expressing concern over potentially anti-Jewish comments ...

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — When I was growing up, no one told me the difference between the Torah and midrash. So, like many other Jews, I thought the Hebrew Bible included the legends of Lilith, Abraham ...

AGENERATION ago, Professor Friedrich Delitzsch in his lectures on “Babel und Bibel” let loose a slue of characteristic Teutonic anti-Semitism under the guise of Assyriologic scholarship. A few ...

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...

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 ...