A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.” This theory and the Hebrew language fit together like the two parts of a puzzle, for the Hebrew poetry constantly expressed emotion by naming the ...

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...

If the common background of Arab and Jew “were realized by the people at large greater amity would be shown by the Arabs of Palestine towards the Jews,” Dr. Israel Davidson, Professor of Medical ...

Like many readers, I first encountered David Rosenberg in “The Book of J,” a provocative study of the passages in the Hebrew Bible that are attributed by biblical scholars to the source known as “J.” ...

As an Israeli nature enthusiast and a student of the Hebrew Bible, every February I experience a double-shock to my senses and thoughts. This love affair with Israeli wildflowers figures prominently ...