Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language ...

In the film The Reader, Kate Winslet, playing an SS guard accused of great brutality, says to her meaning-seeking erstwhile partner, “Nothing comes out of the camps.” He wants to have a relationship ...

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 ...

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The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...

The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in China. The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

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.” ...

Presenter: Michael Simone, S.J. The library of books we call the Hebrew Bible or the "Old Testament" was the only bible Jesus knew, but modern Christians often struggle to make sense of it. The ...

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