The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

The Hebrew Bible or usually known as the Tanakh is widely considered as holy scripture in Judaism which is also a significant book for Christianity, Islam, and even for the Baha’i Faith. It contains ...

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In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

What is love? It’s a simple question that writers and artists have asked repeatedly through the centuries, from Bernard of Clairvaux and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop to Tina Turner and Haddaway. It’s also ...

Last week, I spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. on a panel about the Bible and American renewal. Specifically, my speech focused on the Hebrew Bible and the origins and ...

Yoram Hazony’s new book, The Philosophy of the Hebrew Scripture, is a welcome addition to the series of studies on the Hebrew Bible written over the last two decades. As Hazony writes, scholars of the ...

We are two Australians in our 30s, and if you asked us what most shaped the way we love and understand Israel, we would both ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...