A 2,800-year-old jar inscribed in Hebrew with the Yahwistic name "Benayo" has been discovered at Abel Beth Maacah, a site in northern Israel that is mentioned numerous times in the Hebrew Bible.

Archaeologists say they’ve discovered a tiny lead "curse tablet" that may include the oldest known mention of the Hebrew name of God "Yahweh".

I like to point out to my undergraduate students that the Bible is not history; it's his story—Yahweh's story, God's story. [Yahweh is an ancient Israelite name for God.] Even if archeology can ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible has just sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $38 million. The ancient text, written in around 900 AD, is the most complete early copy of the Hebrew Bible.

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 ...

Hebrew wasn’t spoken for 2,000 years. ... That may have seemed almost impossible less than 150 years ago, when the language was thought to exist only in ancient religious texts. ...

Ancient Hebrew Bible to be auctioned for estimated $30M price "It’s like the emergence of the biblical text as we know it today," a specialist at Sotheby’s said. To stream WUSA9 on your phone ...

The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby's in New York in May. Its anticipated sale ...

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