Today, we examine the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament’s warning ... Now we skip to Proverbs authored by King Solomon, the royal star of our Bible study over the last three weeks.

What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

Jewish Studies as an academic discipline draws upon almost every area in the humanities and social sciences in order to understand the myriad expressions of Jewish civilization over thousands of years ...

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 ...

The Shem Tov Bible, an ornate Hebrew manuscript from 1312, sold for $6.9 million at Sotheby’s and will be publicly displayed. The Shem Tov Bible dates back to 1312 in Castile, now modern day Spain.

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A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for developing the ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on Sept. 30 — is famous for translating the entire Bible into Latin in the fourth century A.D., creating a ...

The establishment of the Eleftherios Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies at the LSE in 1996 was a pioneering development in the academic study of contemporary Greece. At the time, it was the ...

The Vulgate has been revised a handful of times over the years, most notably in 1592 by Pope Clementine VIII (the “Clementine ...