JERUSALEM – The perpetually sleep-deprived scholar sits slouched in a large chair, a pipe to his lips, his long white beard curled into knots, strands of hair poking out from beneath his black ...

While the Jewish Bible is the most acclaimed book ever written, its companion text, The Talmud, is perhaps one of the most maligned religious texts ever. From after it was canonized until today, ...

A Talmud that took Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 45 years to translate from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic into modern Hebrew is being published in English. The first volume of Steinsaltz’s Koren Talmud Bavli is ...

You don’t have to know Hebrew or Aramaic any more to become a talmudic scholar. Indeed, say those behind the Schottenstein Artscroll English translation of the Talmud — whose 73rd and final volume ...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, has opened a new exhibit in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), giving visitors a deeper understanding of ...

Bible and Second Temple Judaism scholar Yonder Gillihan is a founding member of the Maccabees Project to research and educate the public on ancient Judaism. Faith & Religion / Theology - Published on ...

My specific project in this paper is to combine several related and notorious questions in the history of Judaism into one: What is the nexus among the semidivine (or high angel) figure known in the ...

As any Jewish child learns, his faith, like others, is filled with symbols, traditions, rituals, rites, and words that only time and practice will make familiar. In Judaism, a different language, ...