Powerful endorsements bolster John Sailhamer’s new tome on the Bible’s first five books. "To all pastors and serious readers of the Old Testament—geek, uber geek, under geek, no geek—if you graduated ...

(RNS) — The 15-by-24 Pentateuch bound in leather with metal bosses dates to around the year 1000 and was acquired two years ago by the Green Collection, headed by billionaire Steve Green of the Hobby ...

In December 2017, the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest gathering of Jewish scholars in the world, took place in downtown Washington. There were panels on medieval ...

The 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible that went on public view for the first time last week would not exist at all, or have survived this long, without the obsessive efforts of two obscure Jewish groups: ...

“For Christians, the Old Testament, taken as a whole, represents a journey toward Christ,” the late Pope Benedict XVI wrote many years ago. “Only when it arrives at Christ are we able to see what its ...

WASHINGTON — A museum in the US capital unveiled a thousand-year old Hebrew Bible Thursday — one of the oldest intact Torah manuscripts in the world. The book is currently on display at the Museum of ...

Those are words I never expected to hear from Rabbi Steven Leder, the senior Rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles (the congregation to which I belong). Rabbi Leder was marveling at the ...