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 ...

To a young Jessica Sacks growing up in England, the country’s towering chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, was more than just a distant religious figure — he was an uncle. “He was very busy, so we didn’t get ...

At a recent press conference in Houston, a team of archaeologists announced a startling new find. They discovered an inscribed tablet from ancient Israel, well over 3,000 years old, that they say ...

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A fascinating collection of documents co-edited by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and three Yeshiva University colleagues explores the genesis of the United States as the promised land, reliant upon Hebrew ...

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On January 21, 2018, Bible Scholar Nehemia Gordon and his team of researchers discovered the 1,000th Hebrew Bible manuscript containing the original name of God in Hebrew with vowels. For two hundred ...