Original Language Of The Bible Two books of the Old Testament - Wisdom and II Machabees - were written in Greek. The rest of the Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language.

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

In the belief of religious scholars engaging in this ongoing reinterpretation process, the original Hebrew Bible, particularly the Torah portion, is the word of God revealed directly to Moses on ...

The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between 300 and 130 B.C. It derives its name from the seventy or seventy two translators to whom ...

Now we have another Fort Hood, but at what cost? I guess I need to buy the Trump version of the Bible to understand what is supposed to make America great. Sue Kemp, Austin Yet they never learn ...

College launches one-year, in-person graduate program exploring the foundational texts of Jewish and Islamic civilization In ...

Introduction: Dr. Zakir Naik’s critique of Christianity often relies on rhetorical flair rather than reasoned analysis. Beneath the surface of confident assertions lies a pattern of philosophical ...

I got divorced once myself. But I have never gained a full intellectual grasp of Israeli political divorces. They are quite a ...

Mitsui For the Herald Will the church die? I say “no.”  But it will be much smaller with committed people. On December 7th,1941, without ...

While Renaissance Books carries thousands of well-known used books, there's no shortage of rarities within the store.