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 ...
Aviya Kushner tells us in her “The Grammar of God,” an interesting and informative book, that readers of the Hebrew Bible who do not know Hebrew and read only a translation will generally not know ...
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 ...
Judah ibn Tibbon and his son, Samuel, made translation a key factor in promoting great philosophical works to readers in Hebrew. At the same time as the Church was burning the philosophical work of ...
The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...
(JTA) — A new Bible 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 ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Norway’s Sami people, an indigenous community with roots as reindeer herders in the northern reaches of Scandinavia and Russia, are looking south to Israel for help preserving their ...