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

May 23, 2023 "A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, " The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he ...

The letter is based on an understanding of the Hebrew Bible that is, forgive the pun, dead wrong. The Hebrew Bible is understood not simply by reading the text itself but through studying the ...

The Codex Sassoon, a Hebrew Bible from the late 9th or early 10th century, was bought at auction at Sotheby’s for $38.1 million.

Hebrew wasn’t spoken for 2,000 years. Here’s how it was revived. The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in ...

How an Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

A tourist who was caught on video defacing the wall of the Colosseum in Rome last month by carving a love note into it claims in a letter of apology that he was unaware the nearly 2,000-year-old ...

JERUSALEM — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather ...

To the editor: I’ve just read a quote that feels right for the time in which we’re existing (as opposed to thriving) right now. It’s attributed to Sun Tzu, Chinese military general and philosopher, ...

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 ...

By 2016 he and his students had managed to read the Ein Gedi scroll, a charred ancient Hebrew text, by programming their specialized software to detect changes in density between the burnt ...