Koren Press’ “The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel – Numbers” follows its predecessors in the Biblical books Exodus, Leviticus, and Samuel as a fourth outstanding biblical commentary on the Hebrew ...

Bible scholar Joel Hoffman, author of "And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning," told the Rotary Club of Birmingham today that English translations of the Bible's original ...

The King James Bible was translated by a group of about 47 scholars, divided into six committees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Each committee was responsible for translating a specific ...

For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...

Alter has just produced a major revisionist translation of the first five books of the Bible that would have the cosmos begin with a more conversational clause: “When God began to create heaven and ...

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...

To view Christianity only through the lens of the New Testament robs believers of a full understanding of their faith, says Pastor Jim Harmon. For that reason, Harmon and two other pastors at the ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Feb. 8—Surely everyone can agree that no one in 2022 should be thinking about — let alone saying out loud — ways to torture our fellow human beings, our neighbors, our students. Everyone it seems ...

JTA — A new Biblical translation that eschews gendered pronouns for God is now available through Sefaria, the online library of Jewish texts, prompting backlash on social media from some who see the ...