(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 ...
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, ...
In this courageous and compelling study, Wahrman, a biology professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey, draws on her expertise in both biotechnology and Jewish law to apply the ancient ...
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 ...
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 ...
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