In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

Work to be translated into 140 languages. Parry one of about two dozen editors in the world. Project to bring greater understanding of Isaiah's writings. Brigham Young University professor of Hebrew ...

We Christians have a particular interest in the past of the Near East, because our religious and cultural roots lie there. Our beliefs are guided by an ancient book, the Bible, that was produced in ...

Some were heretics and others heroes, but these royal women all took center stage in some of the most important stories in the Old Testament. Bathsheba, Jezebel, Athaliah, and Esther are all ...