Hannah – just to name a few – are names from the Hebrew Bible. They all have different meanings. Benjamin, for example, comes from the two Hebrew words: Ben=son, Yamin=right, meaning Benjamin is the ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible ... on some chance word or phrase in the biblical text to ...

The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew is designed for anyone studying biblical Hebrew ... The vocabulary quizzing program includes audio of the vocabulary words. The textbook is designed for a ...

Dever: We want to make the Bible history. Many people think it has to be history or nothing. But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, what did the biblical writers ...

According to Jewish belief, God has many qualities: Shekhinah (also Shekhina or Shechina) is the Hebrew word for ‘presence’, which in Jewish theology explains God’s presence on Earth.