The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...

?After reading your article on italics, Rashi script immediately came to mind. In my yeshiva days, most of the m?farshim [biblical and talmudic commentators] were printed in it. I never really ...

Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a ...

JTA — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would become the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 2,800-year-old jar inscribed in Hebrew with the Yahwistic name "Benayo" has been discovered at ...

A 2,700-year-old seal featuring a winged figure and Hebrew script was discovered. The seal reveals the Assyrian influence during the First Temple era in Jerusalem. A stone seal from the Jewish First ...