I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

The 2,100-year-old artifact, seven meters long, can be viewed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; only 25 people at a time allowed into climate-controlled room The post Great Isaiah Scroll, oldest near ...

Last week, I spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. on a panel about the Bible and American renewal. Specifically, my speech focused on the Hebrew Bible and the origins and ...

Growing up Jewish in a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi, Lauren Balfour ’28 had an early education in the different ways people practice their faith. Standing on the bimah during her bat mitzvah, seeing ...

Archeologists discovered a clay seal stamped with the name of a biblical figure. The style of the writing on the seal dates the artifact back to the First Temple period 2,600 years ago. Experts ...

Elias Sacks recently published five articles in volume 23 of The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), the first comprehensive research tool to fully explore the history of interpretation ...

The seventh volume of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia containing 1,300 articles on various phases of Jewish life and letters, which fall into the alphabetical categories between LEV and MES, will be ...

On October 5, 2023, an El Al flight from New York touched down in Israel, carrying an extraordinary piece of history. In the cockpit, a special suitcase held the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible in existence, the Sassoon Codex, will be on permanent display at ANU, the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv for the first time. The holy book arrived in ...

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings ...