And yet the Hebrew Bible — including the Torah, its first five books — is riddled with corruptions and alterations that have accrued and been passed down over the millennia. Now an ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology ...

It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels and accents. US lawyer and former ambassador Alfred Moses bought it ...

Brent A. Strawn, Ph.D., professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School and professor of Law at Duke University, has co-edited a volume of 36 essays offering resources for the essential ...

And they do contain history. But in the Hebrew Bible these four books are identified as the Former Prophets. The Book of Deuteronomy, especially chapters 27 and 28, is important to the author of Kings ...

One such manuscript is the Abravanel Hebrew Bible. Ranked by the university in ... He took care not to breathe directly on the books he handled, so as not to introduce moisture.

As a school child, I hated dikduk – biblical grammar. I remember the head-scratcher Ms. Korach taught us about personal pronouns. “She” in Hebrew is he. And “he” in Hebrew is hu. But, sometimes, Ms.

William Dever, Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, has investigated the archeology of the ancient Near East for more than 30 years and authored almost as many books on the subject.

A stained glass window depicts Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God The Five Books of Moses are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. They tell the Jews about their history ...

The Hebrew Bible, also called the Tanakh, is Judaism’s foundational text. “Tanakh” is an acronym for the three major sections ...