Ten Bible mistranslations altered scripture's meaning, from virgin to hell to Moses's horns, shaping centuries of doctrine.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Ethicist Robin McCall recently sat down with William & Mary News to discuss how biblical ethics — or Christian ethics, when interpreted ...
Gestures of Flesh and Spirit. He is one of Israel’s leading contemporary scholars of the Hebrew Bible. He serves as an associate professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University and also ...
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 ...
Jerusalem — Researchers using modern techniques to scrutinize ancient texts have concluded that literacy may have been far more common in biblical times in the Holy Land than previously suspected. A ...
A linguistic revolution is underway in the quest for more gender-inclusive language for Hebrew, whose modern form adopted grammatical norms from 3,000 years ago. Not everybody is on board. By Isabel ...
One of modern man’s specialties is modern man! Never before in history has man been more adept at self-analysis or better equipped to look deep within his own predicament than at the present. Man in ...