Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

Professor Franz Peter William Buhl, famous Old Testament and Hebraic scholar died here today at the age of eighty-two. Professor Buhl, a non-Jew, was widely known for his scholarly works on the Old ...

The "Primary History" is the scholarly term for the biblical narrative spanning Genesis through Kings, created largely through the combination of pre-existing texts and traditions. This narrative has ...

There is no conflict between a proper Christian Zionism and justice for the Palestinian people. The God of the Hebrew Bible ...

For the last 80 years the study of the Old Testament has been characterized by certain well-recognized methods which have become known collectively as the “critical approach.” An analysis of this ...

If you go to Holland you go to see Rembrandt. For Rembrandt is the greatest man Holland has produced, and the greatest figure in the history of art of the last century. No other artist has delved so ...

Through all the dark hours of Israel’s history the promised and longed-for messianic redemption was “the one prop and stay” of the Hebrew community. Various expectations concerning the Messiah of Old ...

Thanks for joining us for a two-part series on the topic of weakness – a feeling that we've all experienced at one time or another —maybe even daily. The Lord uses weakness to bring us closer to Him.

Jul. 10—The Masoretes were a group of Hebrew scholars who worked for 400 years to collect all the versions of the Old Testament and refine them into an authoritative text. Meaning "preservers of ...