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 ...

Originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Bible is the most sold book in history, it first translation into another ...

(RNS) — Hebrew Bible scholar Marc Zvi Brettler learned years ago that it never hurts to ask. Talking to an acquaintance at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University last year, Brettler, a professor of ...

JEWS THE world over will gather around the Seder table this week to recount again the great narrative of their ancestors’ redemption from slavery in Egypt. In retelling the story, they will quote the ...

Translating a Bible has always been risky, and today the language of gender often fires up public opinion. Now entering the lists of controversy is a “gender-sensitive” English translation of ...

Travel to the Spanish region of Catalonia today and it’s easy to uncover evidence of the Jewish communities that thrived during the Middle Ages. There’s Girona’s labyrinth Jewish Quarter, Spain’s only ...

(RNS) — The hiring of Rena Opert may be a symbolic gesture for a museum that says it is committed to presenting an inclusive view of the Bible. (RNS) — Even before the Museum of the Bible opened ...