In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

All 16 million Jews currently alive are, according to the Hebrew prophets, destined to return. The question is not whether ...

A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million at auction next month. The Shem Tov Bible is a 768-page illustrated text written on parchment ...

Translating a Bible has always been risky, and today the language of gender often fires up public opinion. Now entering the lists of controversy is a “gender-sensitive” English translation of ...

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.” ...

A team of academics is aiming to correct centuries-old errors in the Hebrew Bible, but some are questioning the wisdom of their endeavor. LOS ANGELES (JTA ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The ...

Travel to the Spanish region of Catalonia today and it’s easy to uncover evidence of the Jewish communities that thrived during the Middle Ages. There’s Girona’s labyrinth Jewish Quarter, Spain’s only ...