Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million. A rare, 14th-century handwritten Hebrew Bible from Spain will hit the auction block ...

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The first Passover is an event that occurred about 3,500 years ago. It marks the beginning of the Jewish people as a free people. The first commandment given to the Jewish people was to construct ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Julia Rhyder on Tuesday, October 21. Abstract Commemorating war is such an integral part of the modern nation-state, and ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

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. "I'm ...