The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...

Commentaries range from classical Torah scholars like Rashi and Abarbanel to items by Israeli prime ministers Menachem Begin, Golda Meir and Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — In 1903, American ...

The Museum of the Bible in the nation’s capital has opened a new exhibit showing visitors how different faiths come together ahead of Rosh Hashanah. The exhibit, "Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest ...

The 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible that went on public view for the first time last week would not exist at all, or have survived this long, without the obsessive efforts of two obscure Jewish groups: ...

Yael Kanarek’s “Toratah: The Artistry of Transformation,” is now on view at the Midtown Reform congregation. (New York Jewish Week) — What if the first book of the Hebrew Bible had a female God who ...

In December 2017, the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest gathering of Jewish scholars in the world, took place in downtown Washington. There were panels on medieval ...

For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand. "I'm ...

When Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed into law in May one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans, she invoked her faith. “To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a ...