The "Primary History" is the scholarly term for the biblical narrative spanning Genesis through Kings, created largely through the combination of pre-existing texts and traditions. This narrative has ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The ...

The Codex Sassoon, which dates back more than a thousand years, could break records when it hits the auction block in May. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, ...

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 Moshiach came to Madison Avenue this summer. All over a not particularly Jewish neighborhood, posters of the bearded, Rembrandtesque Rebbe Schneerson appeared, mucilaged to every light post and ...

In February of last year, The New York Times ran a piece titled “A Jewish Teacher Criticized Israel. She Was Fired.” The piece told the story of Jessie Sander, a young woman who was dismissed from a ...

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I love the Bible. That’s why I’ve chosen to devote my career to reading and dissecting it, finding new ways to parse its texts and meanings, and teaching about it to classrooms full of undergraduates ...

Celebrated with trumpet blasts, prayers, and symbolic foods, this holiday marks the start of the Jewish high holy days. Rosh Hashanah doesn’t just mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year—it’s also ...

A long-buried street that led pilgrims to the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago was commissioned by Roman governor Pontius Pilate. To uncover an ancient stepped street in Jerusalem, Israeli archaeologists ...

Exactly 200 years ago, on September 15, 1825, a self-governing Jewish colony was ceremonially dedicated on Grand Island in northern New York State, just a few miles downstream from Buffalo on the ...