The Old Testament has been revarnished a bit, the Jewish names exchanged for one hundred per cent Teutonic ones and the Jewish Scriptures can now be read by even a Bavarian anti-Semite without danger ...

Following comments made by Pope Francis during a teaching before a general audience at the Vatican, Israel's top Jewish leaders issued a letter expressing concern over potentially anti-Jewish comments ...

Serious students of Judaism will want to have a copy of this outstanding and surprisingly affordable study Bible, which stands in the tradition of Oxford's great study Bibles. Using the Jewish ...

This is a smart book by two seasoned professors of Jewish studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Knight, also a professor of Hebrew Bible, is the author of many books and articles, and Levine (The ...

Israel’s government wants to put the “old” back into the Old Testament. Following a 30-year absence, the Education Ministry has announced the return of its adult International Bible Quiz, an annual ...

If you go to Holland you go to see Rembrandt. For Rembrandt is the greatest man Holland has produced, and the greatest figure in the history of art of the last century. No other artist has delved so ...

“Comfort, comfort my people,” God instructed the ancient prophet Isaiah in the 40th chapter of his biblical book, words that begin this Shabbat’s haftarah. This prophetic portion, read annually as ...

THE only result of the “baiting” to which Prof. Robertson Smith has been subjected seems to have been the exact reverse of what his assailants intended. Forbidden to lecture upon Hebrew philology at ...