At Sinai, after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21–22), he brought words of God to his people. Moses brought down the ...

A hundred years ago, roughly 10 percent of recent American high-school graduates attended college. Today that figure is 61 percent.

A rare, early 19th-century Hebrew Bible has been returned to Adrian College's Shipman Library after being discovered in the Harvard Divinity School archives. The Bible will be on display at Shipman ...

There's also a particular project in Moss and Storch's minds: To someday update the massive Anchor Bible Dictionary — six volumes with 1,200 pages, holding 6,000 entries from 1,000 contributors ...

A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million at auction next month. The Shem Tov Bible is a 768-page illustrated text written on ...

The oldest surviving Yale seal may be found on the 1749 master’s diploma of Reverend Ezra Stiles, who went on to serve as Yale’s president (1778-1795).

First, the Bible itself does not generally exhibit the clarity to which its modern translators aspire: the Hebrew writers revelled in the proliferation of meanings, the cultivation of ambiguities ...

The Hebrew Bible is full of wordplay, making it difficult to decide when to transliterate a word. The most common reason scholars transliterate Hebrew is that they refer to proper nouns. Diving and ...

The oldest Hebrew Bible in the world has sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York for US$38 million. The ancient leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume, which dates from around 900 AD ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible believed to be the earliest and most comprehensive copy of its kind became the second most expensive historical document sold. Carbon dated back to the late ninth or early 10th ...