After 15 years of planning and preparation, the first modern English translation and commentary to focus exclusively on the writings of the ancient Hebrew prophets will be published next week by the ...

In the scriptural portion that was read this past week in Jewish congregations the patriarch Jacob, on his deathbed, speaks ...

I remember learning in my yeshiva high school that the time of Jewish prophecy is dead. God’s intimate connection with his people had been severed because of their iniquity and never again can we ...

A century after the birth of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel — one of the most influential Jewish scholars, theologians, and civil rights activists of the 20th century — religious leaders, academics, and ...

Is there a more singular, better known, or more beloved prophet than Jonah? In him we recognize both the humanity in greatness and the greatness in human frailty. Called by the Lord to speak to the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The quickest way to understand the audacity and originality of what David Rosenberg is attempting in A Literary Bible, the big book of his selected translations from the Hebrew Bible, is to read the ...

Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, Vol. 50, No. 1/2, CANADIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SLAVISTS, OHRID, MACEDONIA, 2008 (March-June 2008), pp. 1-16 ...