Questions related to literacy in ancient times are not an exclusive prerogative of academic studies on the Israelites.

What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

Eliezer, brother of Rabbi Avi Goldberg, who fell in Lebanon, says: 'He was a fighter-Rabbi, a Rabbi-fighter. Avi believed ...

I’ll start with some full disclosure, I’m not American. My wife and children are, as well as several other more distant family members, but I have no say in the vote, which is okay. This article is ...

21, Issue. 1, p. 89. In this volume, Douglas Yoder uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh, the collection of writings ...

To understand this covenant more deeply, to investigate if it is a one-sided promise or a covenant of mutual reciprocation, ...

It should come as no surprise that over the course of four millennia of Jewish history, numerous controversies (mahlokot) ...

The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is Judaism’s foundational holy book, but it’s not a cohesive manual for daily life. That’s where the Talmud comes in. A 63-volume collection of interpretation ...

Tammy Jacobowitz is Tanakh department chair at SAR High School and is the founding director of Makom B'Siach at SAR, an immersive adult education program for parents. She is also an adjunct faculty ...

Moses is the most important Jewish prophet. The Jewish holy book is known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. The word Tanakh comes from the first letters of the three different parts of the book ...

Approximately 7 million Jewish Israelis and an equal number of Palestinians live cheek by jowl between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The area encompasses Israel, the occupied territories ...

Adina Ellisis a graduate of the Matan Bellows Eshkolot Educators Institute. She has been teaching Tanakh and machshava over the last two decades, initially on college campuses and in Hebrew ...