Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...

In the film The Reader, Kate Winslet, playing an SS guard accused of great brutality, says to her meaning-seeking erstwhile partner, “Nothing comes out of the camps.” He wants to have a relationship ...

Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

Is there a right way to read the Bible? This question came to me as I was reading "The Good Book," by David Plotz. The author, who is the editor of Slate, was thumbing through the Hebrew Bible at his ...

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.” ...

Presenter: Michael Simone, S.J. The library of books we call the Hebrew Bible or the "Old Testament" was the only bible Jesus knew, but modern Christians often struggle to make sense of it. The ...

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written ...

Presenter: Michael Simone, S.J. The library of books we call the Hebrew Bible or the "Old Testament" was the only bible Jesus knew, but modern Christians often struggle to make sense of it. The ...