Genesis, chapters one and two, present two accounts of creation. Many critics of the Bible (often, atheists) assume that they are contradictory. But there are many factors involved in interpreting ...

For those of us who have been fluent for some time, it is easy to become complacent about how remarkable Hebrew is. For those do not know the language, it is difficult to fully grasp Hebrew’s ...

Dr. Isaac Mozeson, in his groundbreaking work The Origins of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language, offers a bold and fascinating thesis: that all human languages derive from Biblical Hebrew—the ...

As the name suggests, the Hebrew Bible is written, mostly, in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What language did the ancient Israelites speak? This episode examines the ...

In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them. Though it’s become fairly common for English language books to contain snippets of Spanish — ...

For the first time, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature was given to the author of a book in Hebrew and its translator, in a sign of the award organization’s desire to expand the prize to ...