For decades, the French surgeon Thierry Bouchet collected Franz Kafka’s books. Some pieces from his collection are being sold ...

But with the Bible, the stakes go up. When we say that something is “in the Bible,” what do we mean? Is it the exact ...

Rashi’s commentary was so foundational that it was chosen as the very first Hebrew book to be printed with a date.

A massage a day keeps neurodegenerative diseases at bay, according to a new study published in Nature last week. The research showed that massaging your face and neck regularly could help clear the ...

The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls likely are much older than originally thought, a new artificial intelligence analysis suggests.

An AI trained on radiocarbon dating suggests some Dead Sea Scrolls might be older than previously thought. The findings could reshape our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity.

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

Manually encoding variant readings is a difficult and time-consuming task. Markup languages ensure data exchange and reusability but are very difficult to handle especially in the case of texts ...

The Austrian National Library which has just celebrated its bi-centenary contains over 300 important Hebrew manuscripts, comprising three different collections: (1) the collection of Bishop ...

One of the most celebrated scholars of Hebrew manuscripts, Malachi Beit-Arié, died on Oct. 17. He was 86. Gary Rendsburg, distinguished professor of Jewish studies and chair in Jewish history at ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- From a dark past of once allowing and ordering the censoring, banning and burning of the Talmud and other Hebrew texts, the Vatican has deepened its decades of fruitful ...