Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he stumbled up ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology ...

Alan Mintz is the Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. His books include "Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in ...

“Kafka learned some Hebrew as a boy — enough to get through his bar mitzvah — but in his mid-thirties he returned to the language and began to study it seriously, with the help of books and ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost took legal action Tuesday to stop the potential sale of rare books from the collection at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.

(JTA) — A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible became the most expensive book ever sold Wednesday when it drew a price of $38.1 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The buyer of the item ...