The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures ...

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 ...

To understand the Eucharist, we must remember that Jesus and his first disciples were all Jews. We might even say the first Christians were Jewish heretics because, unlike their fellow Jews, they ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an 800 hundred year old Yemenite Torah scroll at the Knesset, the parliament of the Jewish State of Israel, March 21, 2016. {Reposted from the JNS website} Since ...

The Jewish Publication Society of America has published an offprint of Solomon Zeitlin’s historical study of the canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time ...

The dynamic multi-disciplinary program in Judaic Studies affords an exceptional and unusual educational opportunity for students to cultivate an appreciation of the historic role played by Jewish ...