“A Literary Bible,” by ­David Rosenberg, is a large book though not, of course, a complete translation of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis is fairly full, though one looks in vain for the passage “In the ...
The different books that make up the Christian holy scripture, the Bible. The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature ...
People read the Hebrew Bible for all sorts of things — spiritual guidance, literary inspiration, moral enlightenment. Assistant professor of Hebrew Bible Madadh Richey looks for monsters. She finds ...
WASHINGTON — A museum in the US capital unveiled a thousand-year old Hebrew Bible Thursday — one of the oldest intact Torah manuscripts in the world. The book is currently on display at the Museum of ...
When Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation was published in 2018, I quickly became consumed by his poetic renderings of scripture. Before I knew it, I was writing persona poems of biblical ...