The English word "Bible" is from the Greek phrase ta biblia, "the books," an expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred books several centuries before the time of Jesus. Christians ...

In the following conversation with Gary Glassman, producer of "The Bible's Buried Secrets," Dever describes some of the most significant archeological finds related to the Hebrew Bible ...

Edmund Wilson, who taught himself Hebrew to read the Old Testament in the original, said it was like discovering a different book. David Daniell's enormous work of over 1,600 pages in small type deals ...

The oldest Hebrew Bible in the world was sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $38 million. The ancient leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume, which dates from around 900 AD., ...

The HB/ANE track is designed to immerse students in the critical, academic study of the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context. Students read the entire Hebrew Bible in four semesters, and ...

The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible incorporates recent advances in scholarship and modern language while retaining many traditional, conservative theological terms. It attempts to render each ...

While scribes have transmitted the Hebrew Bible in its original languages with extraordinary care for millennia, no one copyist can be expected to have escaped all ...

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.

The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible has been bought at Sotheby's New York for $38.1m (£30.6m), becoming the most valuable manuscript sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is thought to have been ...

They tell the Jews about their history, the laws they should follow and how to live according to God’s will.

ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv is expecting some 10,000 visitors to see the Codex Sassoon The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible is on display in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before ...

The ancient Jewish text was printed in Italy in 1490. It summarizes all aspects of Jewish law in clear and accessible Hebrew.