the Scriptures par excellence ... They restricted the Hebrew Canon to Books written before 400 B.C. in Hebrew. They also rejected the Septuagint claiming it to be corrupted by the Christians.

I think first of all, I am drawn to the imagery of the selection. Wisdom is personified, and if we look closely enough, we ...

A Catholic deacon recommends you consider Verbum, for less than the cost of a Netflix subscription.

Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also ...

The mission statement of the God Squad is that we know enough about how we are different and not enough yet about how we are all the same. I realize that I have been spending too much time writing ...

What if one of the greatest scientists in history had foreseen the date of the Apocalypse? This isn’t science fiction but a ...

This inaugural printed Hebrew edition of the Prophets, with Kimhi’s scholarly annotations, was produced in 1485 by the esteemed Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino. This edition, which predates ...

Next, we turn to the Tower of Babel, another great Hebrew Bible story with a lesson for humanity: God rules over and slaps us ...

History of Jews and the Pig,” which just won a Jewish Book Award, explores every aspect of this non-relationship.

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of ...

Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York. By Juliana Barbassa and Jennifer Harlan The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...