A rare 14th-century ornate Hebrew Bible written during the golden age of Spain will be put on public display after being sold for $6.9m (£5.3m). The Bible, written by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312AD ...

When Rabbi Ari Lamm posted a first 25-post thread on Twitter with a lesson in why one should read the Bible in Hebrew, he was doing it out of personal inspiration and not for anyone else. But a few ...

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...

A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million at auction next month. The Shem Tov Bible is a 768-page illustrated text written on parchment ...

A 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible featuring Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic styles, is being sold in September at Sotheby’s by Jacqui Safra, heir of a Syrian Lebanese-Swiss banking ...

The first Bible in Hebrew characters ever to be printed in Palestine will be issued here soon, it was disclosed today by Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University. Palestine, the land in ...

On October 5, 2023, an El Al flight from New York touched down in Israel, carrying an extraordinary piece of history. In the cockpit, a special suitcase held the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew ...

RNS — President Barack Obama used a Bible belonging to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim member of Congress, took the oath of office on the Quran. And on ...

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