It is fascinating that some of the most splendid prose in the Hebrew Bible emerges from the mouth of Balaam, a brilliant poet ...

A near-complete copy of the Hebrew Bible from around 1,000 years ago — missing only a few pages — will go up for auction in New York in May. The price tag? An estimated $30 to $50 million ...

Proving the Bible NOVA: Have biblical archeologists traditionally tried to find evidence that events in the Bible really happened? William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical ...

From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for ...

For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand.

The Codex Sassoon 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible on display at the Tel Aviv's ANU Museum of the Jewish People for a week-long exhibition of the manuscript, part of a whirlwind worldwide tour of the ...

The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction.

The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will go on display in London next week before an auction in May where it could sell for up to $50 million, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis.The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ...